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11. Foreign Operations Export Financing, and Related Programs Ap-
propriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100-461, November 18, 1988).
Sec. 564: Assistance for Panama .......

Sec. 565: Elimination of the Sugar Quota Allocation for
Panama.....

M. Paraguay.

1. International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985
(Public Law 99–83, August 8, 1985).

Sec. 706: Assistance for Paraguay: Human Rights Conditions.....
2. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989
(Public Law 100-204, December 22, 1987).

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897

898

Sec. 1214: Sense of Congress Regarding Human Rights in Par-
guay.......

898

N. Peru.

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985
(Public Law 99-83, August 8, 1985).

Sec. 707: Assistance for Peru....

O. Uruguay.

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985
(Public Law 99-83, August 8, 1985).

Sec. 720: Economic Assistance for Uruguay

VIII. CENTRAL AMERICA PEACE PROCESS

A. Contadora Documents.

1. Document of Objectives, issued September 9, 1983, by Contadora
Group......

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900

2. Caraballeda Message for Peace, Security and Democracy in Cen-
tral America, issued on January 12, 1986, by the Contadora
Group and the Contadora Support Group..

902

B. Central American Presidents Documents.

1. San Jose Peace Proposal, February 15, 1987 (including original
Arias Peace Plan)..

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2. Guatemalan Agreement for Peace in Central America, August 7,
1987 (Esquipulas II) ..

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3. Joint Statement of the Presidents of Central America on Compli-
ance with Esquipulas II Accord, San Jose, Costa Rica, January
16, 1988........

C. Agreement between the Constitutional Government of Nicaragua and
the Nicaraguan Resistance, Sapoa, Nicaragua, March 23, 1988 (Sapoa
Accord).

IX. SELECTED PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES.

A. President James Monroe (1817-25).
Monroe Doctrine.

-Excerpts from Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December
2, 1823...

B. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1939-45).
Good Neighbor Policy.

-Excerpts from Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933; before Gov-
erning Board of Pan American Union, April 12, 1933; at
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, December 28, 1933; and before
Governing Board of Pan American Union, April 15, 1940..................

C. President John F. Kennedy (1961–63).
Alliance for Progress.

-White House Reception for Latin American Diplomats and
Members of Congress, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1961...........................

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D. President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–69).
The Alliance for Progress: A New Kind of Revolution.
-Address before the Pan American Health Organization Head-
quarters, Washington, D.C., August 17, 1966..

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E. President Richard Nixon (1969-74).

Action for Progress for the Americas.

-Address before the Inter-American Press Association, October
31, 1969...

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F. President Jimmy Carter (1977–81).

1. President Čarter's Pan American Day Address.

-Address before the Permanent Council of the OAS at the Pan
American Union at Washington, D.C., April 14, 1977 ......

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2. Tenth General Assembly of the OAS.

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-Address before the Tenth General Assembly of the OAS, Wash

ington, D.C., November 19, 1980.....

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G. President Ronald Reagan (1981-89).

1. Caribbean Basin Initiative.

-Address before the Permanent Council of the Organization of

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American States, February 24, 1982...

2. Why Democracy Matters in Central America.
-Address to the Nation, June 24, 1986....

3. Promoting Freedom and Democracy in Central America.
-Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion at Ellis Island, New York, May 3, 1987..

X. U.S. ASSISTANCE TO LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN,
FISCAL YEARS 1946 TO 1989 ..

A. U.S. Bilateral Economic and Military Assistance to Latin America and
the Caribbean, Fiscal Years 1946 to 1987, Congressional Research
Service (CRS) Report for Congress, July 31, 1987.

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B. U.S. Bilateral Economic and Military Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean, Fiscal Years 1987 to 1989.

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*Subsections (a) and (b) amend the Trade Act of 1974. (See Sec. VI, G.3, p. 415.)

INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS

I. MAJOR INTER-AMERICAN TREATIES AND

AGREEMENTS

A. Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal
Assistance (Rio Treaty), 19471

In the name of their Peoples, the Governments represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, desirous of consolidating and strengthening their relations of friendship and good neighborliness, and

CONSIDERING:

That Resolution VIII of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace 2 which met in Mexico City, recommended the conclusion of a treaty to prevent and repel threats and acts of aggression against any of the countries of America;

2

That the High Contracting Parties reiterate their will to remain united in an inter-American system consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, and reaffirm the existence of the agreement which they have concluded concerning those matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security which are appropriate for regional action;

That the High Contracting Parties reaffirm their adherence to the principles of inter-American solidarity and cooperation, and especially to those set forth in the preamble and declarations of the Act of Chapultepec, all of which should be understood to be accepted as standards of their mutual relations and as the juridical basis of the Inter-American System;

That the American States propose, in order to improve the procedures for the pacific settlement of their controversies, to conclude the treaty concerning the "Inter-American Peace System" envisaged in Resolutions IX and XXXIX of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace; 3

That the obligation of mutual assistance and common defense of the American Republics is essentially related to their democratic ideals and to their will to cooperate permanently in the fulfillment of the principles and purposes of a policy of peace;

That the American regional community affirms as a manifest truth that juridical organization is a necessary prerequisite of security and peace, and that peace is founded on justice and moral order and, consequently, on the international recognition and protection of human

1 Opened for Signature at Rio de Janeiro September 2. 1947; Ratification Advised by the Senate of the United States of America December 8, 1947; Ratified by the President of the United States of America December 12, 1947; Ratification of the United States of America Deposited With the Pan American Union December 30, 1947; Proclaimed by the President of the United States of America December 9, 1948; Entered into Force December 3, 1948. Ratified by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica. Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru. United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1543; 60 Stat. 1831.

Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, February 21-March 8, 1945, Department of State publication 2497, p. 107.

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