UN General Assembly
1964

27. The Republic of Ecuador is both a Member of the United Nations and a member of the Organization of American States, the first of the regional organizations provided for in Chapter VIII of the Charter signed at San Francisco and a model for all the rest. Its establishment was the culmination of a long historical process which took 122 years. from the memorable Congress of Panama called together by the prophetic genius of Simon Bolivar in 1026 to its founding in 1948. In virtue of this double membership my country, like the other American States, enjoys all the rights and means of recourse provided for both by the world Organization and by the American regional Organization.