UN General Assembly
1969

is being subjected, I have requested on behalf of my Government that the consultative organ of the Organization of American States should be convened so that we can submit to it the relevant complaints with the urgency which the situation dictates. 147. The dispute between El Salvador and Honduras has been raised in the plenary of the General Assembly through statements by representatives who have expressed an interest in its settlement. It might be submitted to the decision-raking organs on the proposal of El Salvador, if the Organization of American States proves unable to ensure the survival of the country, which is being overtly threatened by economic aggression, taking unjustified advantage of purely geographical circumstances. The United Nations is vested by its Charter and the inter-American instruments with the higher and final competence for the maintenance of international peace and security. 148. El Salvador will wage an unflagging struggle for the guaranteeing of fundamental human rights. It will never commit itself to a policy of abandoning its nationals abroad