Honduran Heads For The U.S.
TEGUCIGALPA - Post-coup Honduran President
Porfirio Lobo left for his U.S. trip on
Saturday. The president's itinerary will
take him to the U.S. states of New Orleans
and Miami, where he would visit a number of
universities and talk to a World Bank
official.
Honduras, sinking into political turmoil
when former President Manuel Zelaya was
ousted in a coup late last June, is now
seeking and rallying support for its reentry
into the international community,
particularly the readmission to the
Organization of American States (OAS).
Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Canahuati
said Honduras' membership in the OAS should
be automatically reinstated when the next
general assembly convenes in Lima on June
6-8.
Lobo, assuming office on Jan. 27, granted
Zelaya safe passage out of the country and
agreed not to arrest him over charges that
he violated the constitution while in power.
But several Latin American states, including
Brazil and Argentina, refuse to recognize
the post-coup Honduran government, saying
the recognition would imply the approval of
the coup and the overthrow of a
democratically elected president.
The United States, however, is urging all
countries in the region to recognize Lobo's
government.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
in Costa Rica last month that her country
believed constitutional order had been
returned to Honduras.
"A new democratically elected government run
by President Porfirio Lobo has taken
important and necessary steps that deserve
the recognition and the normalization of
relations," she said.
Washington would unlock its aid worth 31
million U.S. dollar to the Latin American
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