Statement About National Crime Prevention Week, 1971
02/05/1971
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It was in 1948 in Bogota that the Organization of American States was set up.
So, the role that Colombia has played in the greater problems of the hemisphere in developing the spirit of the American family, we honor to...
And just a month ago--and incidentally, primarily through your leadership--the Andean Common Market had its birth in Bogota.
So, because you represent a great country, a country with which we have had such friendly relations, because you represent a great continent...