UN General Assembly
1982

General Assembly at its eleventh special session, just as it was at the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth sessions, without progress being made. ' I do not believe that we should waste time by futilely apportioning blame for the lack of progress. Rather, we must emphasize the need to break out of this impasse, which has hurt economic relations between developed and developing countries so much. The great family of the Americas has so far this year given two exceptional examples of solidarity, to which I wish to refer because of the great significance of joint, simultaneous action which presages the better days of which the Liberator Simon Bolivar dreamt. I refer, in chronological order, to the valuable and emotional-but none the less objective-backing which El Salvador's process of democratization received from the overwhelming majority of brother countries of Latin America, gathered at a meeting of the Organization of American States in Castries, Saint Lucia. Thanks largely to that support, the elections of 28 March this year were transformed from ideals into reality.