"More and more, tribunals are deciding they can reopen a case internally and make justice if it is in order to comply with the Inter-American system."

It was Mr. Sarney who proclaimed that "we ought to struggle for the total integration of Cuba into the inter-American system."

A State Department official called the handling of the voting "a serious threat to the inter-American system and its commitment to democracy."

"The killings of witnesses in this trial is a direct threat to the integrity of the Inter-American system, which the United States has not in any way defended."

That the present Government of Cuba, which has officially identified itself as a Marxist-Leninist government, is incompatible with the principles and objectives of the inter-American system.

That this incompatibility excludes the present Government of Cuba from participation in the inter-American system.

In the process the juridical and institutional seeds of the inter-American system were planted.

The Dominican Republic has a close relationship with the United States and with the other states of the Inter-American system.

At the same time the inter-American system in Latin America produced the Bustamante Code of 1928 and the Montevideo Conventions of 1939 and 1940.

The resolution stated that as Cuba had officially identified itself as a Marxist-Leninist government, is was incompatible with "the principles and objectives of the inter-American system."