Zelaya to Address UN General Assembly
United Nations - Constitutional president of
Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya will address
the first session of the UN General
Assembly, confirmed Honduran ambassador,
Jorge Arturo Reina.
The speech by Zelaya will occur in the sixth
turn of the Wednesday September 23 session,
the diplomat declared to Prensa Latina.
The head of state is accompanied by
chancellor Patricia Rodas, minister of the
presidency, Enrique Flores and ambassadors
of Honduras to the United States, Enrique
Reina and to the UN.
Zelaya intends to express appreciation of
the solidarity of his government by the UN
and the international community against the
coup that expelled him from power last June
28, explained his representative to the
world organization.
Last July the General Assembly approved a
resolution of condemnation against the coup
and disturbance of constitutional order and
democracy in the Central American nation.
The resolution repudiates the interruption
of a legitimate exercise of power and
withdrawal of the democratically elected
president and demanded the immediate and
unconditional restoration of the
constitutional government.
Also it called on all States to refuse
recognition of any other government that is
not represented by Zelaya and expressed its
support of regional efforts to solve the
political crisis in Honduras.
For his part, the current president of the
General Assembly, Nicaraguan Miguel D Escoto
proposed to the UN Human Rights Council to
designate a Special Rapporteur to evaluate
the situation in Honduras after the coup.
The coup was condemned by the Group of Rio,
the Union of South American Nations, the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America, the Organization of American States
and the European Union, among other
institutions and groups. |
