UN General Assembly
1976

124. We are therefore certain that the special plenary meeting which will be held by this General Assembly to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama and to pay a tribute to liberator Simon Bolivar, will have the enthusiastic support of all States Members of the Organization. This celebration is of singular importance for the Latin American nations and for the non-aligned countries. For the former, the genius of Bolivar converted into continental doctrine the feeling and thinking of unity which was common to the heroes of the emancipation of the Latin American nations. For the latter, Bolivar, with his far-sighted thinking, opened up broad ways and means of achieving the fundamental objectives of defeating imperialism, colonialism, racism and foreign domination.