Signing the Act of Chapultepec, Mexico (1945)
ID: CAL-01-0144
Format: SD
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Description

Hosted by Ezequiel Padilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (1940-1945), the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace was held in Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City, from 21 February to 8 March 1945. The conference, which was attended by the U.S. secretary of state and the foreign secretaries of all the Latin American countries except El Salvador and Argentina, established a number of the important principles that shaped inter-American relations in the post-World War II era. Among the most significant was a pronouncement, known as the Act of Chapultepec, by which the governments agreed that any attack by any state against the integrity, sovereignty, territory, or political independence of an American state would be considered an act of aggression against all the other signatories of the declaration. The act is signed for the USA by Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., United States Secretary of State.

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