Report: UN concluded Zelaya removal legal

Hot Air ^ | October 14, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[opentalk]

The Obama administration has insisted that the removal of Manuel Zelaya from office violated Honduran and international law and amounts to a military coup. According to one report this morning, though, the United Nations has reached an entirely different conclusion. Hondudario, translated by Google, reports that the UN’s Department of Political Affairs concluded that the removal of Zelaya from office was legal and justified

[opentalk]

A study by the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Organization (UNO) on the causes of the crisis in Honduras, concluded that the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, “was constitutional under the laws of the country,” confirmed officials of that agency. This version was officially known today by senior UN officials, which also coincides with the study prepared by the Library of Congress.

If this turns out to be true, though, it would come as a shock and embarrassment to the White House. The Law Library of Congress has already reached the same conclusion, a development which the Obama administration has ignored, and which most of the media have studiously avoided mentioning. A UN report backing Roberto Micheletti, the Honduran parliament, and Supreme Court would expose Obama’s knee-jerk conclusion and siding with democracy advocates such as the Castro brothers and Hugo Chavez for the amateurish bungling that it was.

[Patrsup]

I’m sure this will get lots of play in the MSM

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt

[GeronL]

Obama and the MSM have just been slapped in the face.

[GladesGuru]

Obama’s gets another “sharp stick in the eye”, this time from the UN.

At this rate, his eyes will soon resemble a porcupine’s back.

Fro Russian diplomatic snubs to SNL, it looks as though Obama is being seen for what he is.

[opentalk]

Bear in mind that Hondudario ran this in an editorial, at least as far as I can tell. Nothing else has hit the wires about a UN determination in this crisis. The UN’s DPA has a website, but does not have anything at all on the Honduran stand-off

Author still waiting for official notice. Hopefully there will be no interference from Whitehouse on release.

[listenhillary]

Obama and the MSM have just been slapped in the face.

You don't notice when you are brain dead.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Oh my, two kicks in the azz, three counting the Olympics.
Are we seeing a trend finally?

[kidd]

So Obama is further to the left than the UN.

Or just dumber.

[opentalk]

New update, sorry just posted at Hot Air

Update: UN says was just a consultant opinion

Update: TrueSlant says the UN has issued a statement explaining that they have not yet taken a position, and that this was an opinion from a DPA consulting firm:

A recent Honduran media report appears to refer to an analysis submitted by a consultant as representing the views of the Department of Political Affairs This is highly misleading.

The Department of Political Affairs routinely receives reports and analyses of this type from consultants, academics and other experts. But its views are strictly in line with that outlined in the General Assembly Resolution. Perhaps the UN would release the consultant report to see how it matches with the Congressional finding.

Probably does not want to embarrass a Nobel Peace Prize Winner

[listenhillary]

Thanks

[The Comedian]

Send in Rahm to strong-arm the impudent authors of this smear...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[a fool in paradise]

The Nobel Pi** Prize winner got it WRONG. He supported Chavez’s military coup AGAINST Honduras, our ally.

[TigersEye]

Duh!