UN General Assembly
1982

In an effort to produce a realistic way out of the present crisis besetting Central America, the President of Costa Rica, Luis Alberto Monge, on the very day he assumed power on 8 May of this year, began to put into practice what he had advocated in his electoral campaign, namely, a broad alliance of democratic forces and Governments in order to confront the totalitarian offense and promote the values, machinery and goals of representative, pluralistic and participatory democracy for clearly social purposes. For this purpose, infer in a joint declaration of the heads of State attending the ceremony of the transfer of power on 8 May, it was agreed, on Costa Rica's initiative, that there would be created a good offices group which would have as its special mandate the study of the various peace initiatives that had been presented by various Governments in order to bring about the relaxation of tension in Central America, as well as other proposals that might be presented for the same purpose in