Americans also share with the people of Burundi a profound respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter.

I look forward to the establishment of the most cordial relations between our two countries, and all Americans stand ready to work with the people of Rwanda to reach the goals we all share of peace, enlightenment and material well-being.

I am confident that in the future our two countries will be as one in safeguarding the greatest bond between us-our common belief in a free and democratic way of life.

I wish to extend to you, your Government, and the people of the Republic of Rwanda, on the occasion of Rwanda's accession to independence, the congratulations and warm wishes of the people of the United States.

In extending the congratulations of my country, I speak for a people who cherish individual liberty and independence and who have made great sacrifices so that these principles may endure, and who share with the people of Rwanda a profound…

Necessity has made us allies in a vast Alianza para el Progreso.

New factories and machinery mean little to the family without a home.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, under the authority vested in me, as President, by the Constitution and statutes, in particular section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim that, as of August 8, 1962:

I want you to know how appreciative we were to the people of this city, who were kind enough to line the streets and greet us, and through us, the people of my country.

I believe that there is so much which unites this great country with my own.

When you succeed, the whole country succeeds.

Most of all, we are both children of revolution, and it is my hope that the spirit of our revolution in the United States is as alive today in our country as is the spirit of your revolution here in Mexico.

It is our responsibility, Mr. President, I believe, in the sixties, and the responsibilities of others in our sister republics in this great hemisphere, to recognize that there is also a necessity for an economic revolution.

We now dream the same dream of opportunity in the future.

This effort is not a one-way street.

Until every child has a meal and every student has an opportunity to study, and everyone who wishes to work can find a job, and everyone who wishes a home can find one, and everyone who is old can have security-until that is done in this…

Economics has made us partners.

DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

So we come, Mr. President, on a mission of friendship and also of great purpose.

We come as good neighbors and follow in the footsteps of one of my most distinguished predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt.

So, Mr. President, I salute you and I salute this country.

While geography has made us neighbors, tradition has made us friends.

We recognize the right of every nation to order its own affairs.

And working through the Alianza para el Progreso, a great communal effort, not that of the United States, not that of Mexico, but of all of the sister republics of our free hemisphere working together, it is our obligation to bring to the…

So I compliment you and it makes me particularly proud to be an honorary citizen and guest of this celebrated city.