UN General Assembly
1972

14. At the meeting held on 17 April 1971 at San José, Costa Rica, during the first regular session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country Professor Raul Sapena Pastor, referred to the question of the breadth of the territorial sea in order to make the following points on behalf of Paraguay: "The Republic of Paraguay is an inland land-locked country, and geographical and historical circumstances have deprived it of the extraordinary benefit of having a coastline. Nonetheless, Paraguay has the right to enjoy freedom of the high seas and unlimited navigation and to have access to fisheries, the underlying resources and the airspace over the sea. To the extent that the States with coastlines arbitrarily increase their sovereignty by widening their territorial sea, they are also arbitrarily limiting the rights of the Republic of Paraguay and of all inland or land-locked States." He went on to say: