65. The PRESIDENT: We shall first consider the report of the Sixth Committee on agenda item 86, entitled “Report of the Special Committee on the Question of Defining Aggression”. The report is contained in document A/9890. I shall now call on those representatives who wish to explain their vote before the vote.

66. Mr. GODOY (Paraguay) (interpretation from Spanish): The Paraguayan delegation is convinced, as we always have been, that the rule of true justice and law in the international arena is the only guarantee that the majority of countries have for their security and for their full enjoyment or harmonious coexistence in the community of nations.

67. That conviction and the solid basis provided by the principles and norms of international law, set forth in the United Nations Charter and in dozens of other legal instruments, led my delegation, together with 17 other delegations in the Sixth Committee, to sponsor a working paper, contained in document A/C.6/ L.990, proposing a draft addendum whereby the blocking of routes of access to the sea of a land-locked country by the armed forces of a State would also be considered and described as an act of aggression.

68. The inclusion of that proposal in the draft prepared and recommended by the Special Committee on the Question of Defining Aggression could have corrected the omission of the above-mentioned principles that was patently discriminatory. That omission disregarded the interests of almost 30 sovereign States whose geographical position, in the majority of cases, may be explained by historico-political developments in which the countries affected today played no part whatsoever, or as a result of which they were made into land-locked countries and, in consequence, geographically dependent.