Pays a tribute to Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, as a promoter of Latin American integration and as a builder of constructive plans for international organization on a continental and wor!d-wide scalc and, in this connexion, decides to place a commemorative plaque in the United Nations Headquarters building as a permanent tribute to his memory;
2
Recognizes that the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama represents the most outstanding and audacious unionist experiment at the international leve! in the nineteenth century, with oecumenical features which anticípate and coincide with the ohjectives of the United Nations system;
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Expresses the hope that the ideal of Bolívar will inspire the establishment of a more just intcrnational order of respect for law, devoted to the maintenance of pcace, the preservatíon of democratic principles, the promotion of economic and social progress, and the freedom of all peoples;
4
Formulates the wish for a successful outcome of the negotiations for the conclusion of a new treaty on the Panama Canal, which will eliminate the causes of conflict between thc Republic of Panama and the United States of America, in accordance with the Declaration of Principies, signed by the parties concerned on 7 February 197 4, where it is stated that the Panamanian territory of which the Panama Canal is a part shall be returned promptly to the jurisdiction of the Republic of Panama and that the Republic of Panama "will assume total responsibility for the operation of the Canal upnn the termination of the treaty";"5
5:1 Article 2 of the Treaty of Perpetua! Union, League and Confederation, Panama, 15 July 1826. For the text, see
James Brown, ed. (New York, Oxford University Press, 1931),
54 Simón Bolívar, "Reply of a South American to a gentleman of this Tsland [Jamaica]", Kingston, 6 September 1815. Por the text, see Selected Writings of Bolivar, vol. I, Vicente Lecuna, comp., Harold A. Bierck, Jr., ed. (New York, The Colonial Press Tnc., 1951), p. 119.
5:; Eight-point agreement signed in Panama City on 7 February 1974 by Mr. Juan Antonio Tack, Minister for Externa! Relations of the Republic of Panama, and by Mr. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State of the United States of America.
vol. LXV, No. 1809, 25 February 1974, pp. 184 and 185.
Requests the Secretary-General to arrange for the circulation to all Member States of a document reproducing the instrument of convocation and the agreements of the Amphictyonic Congress of 1826, the original texts of which, currently kept in Río de J aneiro, will be deposited in Panama by decision of the Government of Brazil, at an appropriate time, to be preserved in the monument to be erected in that country as part of the Bolívar commemoration.
lnternational Confcrences of American States,
1889-1928,
p. XXV.
50 Ofjicial Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Sesords of the Security Council, Thirty-first Y ear, Supp!ement for October, November and December 1976.
For the text, see United States Department of State Bulletin,
