UN General Assembly
1961

55. This is clear evidence that we need have no fears regarding the liberation of peoples, nor qualms in face of the difficulties which the newly independent countries may encounter. In judging what is happening in Africa and Asia, we must always bear in mind the problems that beset Latin America in the years following the wars of independence and the way that which they came to be resolved. 56. These guiding principles of my own country are, I am sure, common to the nations of Latin America and are largely shared by Governments in other continents that are fundamentally concerned to ensure the maintenance of peace and security and to eliminate the causes of international friction. Thus it was that a large group of countries from every part of the world recently met at Belgrade for the purpose of exchanging views and seeking formulae for peaceful coexistence.