Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-17

# Foreign Relations held in Santiago, Chill in
1853, and, finally has promoted fiSSure in the
,aSic conceptions of the Organization of American
states which stands in urgent need of a perma-
lent and integral cohesion among the peoples
md governments comprising this regional COM
nunity.
l. International policy in the Americas is
grounded upon two abiding basic concepts:
one is political in nature and consolidated by
the practice of regi0nalism, and it is marked
by integral solidarity; the other is eminently
Juridical in nature and hallOwed by the Amer
lean republics-that of nOn-interventiOn In
tegral solidarity, which covers the entire range
of the progress of peoples, has moved forward
amid obstacles that were not unfOrSeeable in
its Development NOn-interventiOn, which
stems from an evolutionary process with which
the American continent is well acquainted,
defines historically the unchanging policy of
the American republics. From these concepts
which the peoples of the Americas have de-
lined subscribed and ratified in meetings and
International American conferences and which
identify the nations of this hemisphere, there
stem consistently renewed affirmatiOnS pro-
claiming the recognition of independence,
sovereignty and the juridical equality of states
in the establishment of the principle of non
Intervention.
2. That independence which entails full aware
ness in making free announcements and the
organic structure of nations allowing its exer-
else against all arbitrary acts by either their
own or alien forces, whether domestic or for
eign, inasmuch as that state enjoying it is
its own master and the one responsible for its
own destiny, is trend that expresses itself
unhesitantly.
3. Sovereignty, which is grounded in complete
internal autonomy and becomes manifest in
unqualified external independence, is assured
in the international relations of the peoples
of this Continent not by policy of force, but
Trncfn Lry AIHnk
generated by the rule of law which makes the
strong bend before the weak and exalts those
principles that go to make the abiding fOun-
datiOns of that rule of law.
4. The juridicaI equality haIIOwed in the funda-
mental rights and duties of states defined,
subscribed and ratified in instruments that
are in force; unaltered by the contingencies
in the international life of the Americas, and
whose foremost SyntheSiS is to be found in
the Charter of the Organization of American
States - presuppOseS the same powers and
capabilities to develop their existence as subj
ects of international law. There is no admit
ting differences that are offensive to the honor
OF demOcratically organized peoples, nor those
that may diminish the full realization of basic
equality in the practice and exercise of their
activities, either individually or collectively.
5. The principle of non-intervention which has
been attained through painful and unforgot-
ten stages of American history and marked
devotion to the rule of law, and to which the
American peoples have dedicated no less a
thing than a policy informed by the Ioftiest
clvlllZlng and progressive spirit would seem to
be in jeopardy owing to backsliding that no
one would have thought possible among the
countries of this hemisphere, particularly in
the light of the history of sovereignty in the
Americas, which arose amid the relentless
struggle for the conquest of nationality.
THEREFORE, and having in view the solidarity
f the American nations that are Joined in the
Organization of American States,