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Salvador Sacks Ambassador To Honduras For
Accepting Decoration
SAN SALVADOR - The Salvadorian Foreign
Ministry said on Wednesday that Sigifredo
Ochoa Perez was deposed as Salvadorian
ambassador to Honduras for accepting a
decoration from the de facto government of
Honduras without authorization.
Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez deposed Ochoa
as he defaulted the Salvadorian Constitution
by receiving recognition without
authorization of the Salvadorian Legislative
Assembly, according to a foreign Ministry
statement.
Ochoa was military chief during the
Salvadorian civil war in 1980-1992 and he
was appointed to the diplomatic service by
the past administration, now the opposition.
Ochoa was to leave his charge at the end of
2009. However, Martinez said that he was not
dismissed for finishing his services, but
"for have committed faults" deserving an
official notification to the General
Prosecutor's Office of the Republic.
The de facto Honduran government, in power
since the coup of June 28 against then
President Manuel Zelaya, gave Ochoa the
Morazan Order decoration in Great Cross of
Silver Plate Degree, which is the highest
decoration awarded to diplomats fulfilling
their work in Honduras. |
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