SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS’ CLAIMS FOR TERRITORIES

Grey River Argus, 12 April 1948, Page 5

SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS’ CLAIMS FOR TERRITORIES

BOGOTA (Colombia), April 9. Argentina to-day urged the. PanAmerican Conference to recognise all Latin-American territorial claims against European colonial possessions. , , . Argentina, which has now taken the clear . leadership of the anticolonial campaign, submitted an amendment strengthening Guatemala’s anti-colonial resolutoin and called on the twenty-one republics to resolve that “it is the just inspiration of the peoples and governments of the Republics of America that colonialism or de facto occupation in the Americas should be ended.” Argentina’s amendment added: “The rights and responsibilities emerging from this declaration and the legal titles that the American republics possess give rights .responsibilities and titles against the foreign occupying nations of this, continent.”

The passage of such a resolution would automatically involve all the members of the Pan-Amorican system in recognition of Argentina’s claims in the Antarctic, Guatemala’s claims in British Honduras, and perhaps, even Venezuela’s claims in the Guianas.

Main opposition to the anticolonial move will come from Mbxico and Brazil, whose delegates promised to-day to submit conciliatory formulas shortly. The chairman ordered that all amendments should be submitted by to-morrow and the debate concluded on Monday.*