UN General Assembly
1982

own development. If manifest unwillingness and delaying tactics continue to be shown, it will be impossible to intensify the co-operation which at the international level should promote the development of nations in a setting of justice and equity. We therefore look forward very much to the prompt initiation of the global negotiations. 55. Understanding, co-operation and the processes of integration have another requirement in order to be perfect-the redressing of injustices and inequalities, I must refer once again, before the world community assembled here, to our geographical condition-the fact that we are landlocked, a fact that has been forced upon us for the past 103 years. This reference also derives from the imperative mandate given by my people, who for more than a century have pressed for their rights to return, with sovereignty, to the shores of the Pacific. 56. We all know that when they have the stamp of legitimacy the rights of nations are never exhausted. Therefore, the return of territories which have been usurped in so many latitudes of the world is essential.