UN General Assembly
1951

37. Haiti is the second oldest independent State of the Americas, coming immediately after the Northern United States. After having gained its independence without outside aid and by virtue of its own efforts, it helped Simon Bolivar to emancipate the Spanish colonies on the American continent, thereby giving to the world the very highest example of brotherly solidarity at a time when its own security was still in peril. Although its population has lost nothing of its warlike qualities, Haiti has always tried to settle even its gravest disputes with other nations by pacific means. It was with a loyal and sincere heart that it offered its collaboration to the Pan American Union, to the League of Nations, and now to the United Nations, for the maintenance of peace based on a justice opposed to the teachings of hate and violence which aim at setting races, nations and classes at odds with each other.