UN General Assembly
1992

particular talent for setting up this necessary world-wide and regional coordination. The recent judgment handed down by the International Court of Justice concerning a territorial dispute between Honduras and El Salvador, and accepted by both parties; the submission to an arbitration tribunal of a border dispute between Argentina and Chile; and the new and positive spirit reigning in the dialogue between Ecuador and Peru aimed at solving the long-standing conflict that has pitted these two fraternal countries against each other bear witness to the example Latin America is setting. The duty all the States that make up the international community have to guarantee and protect human rights does not flow only from the international obligations that result from treaties in force; respect for human rights is born of the United Nations Charter and of the Universal Declaration. Furthermore, it is a principle of jus cogens which, if violated, entails international answerability and renders null all legal instruments contrary to this imperative law which originates in the will of the international