Honduras' Zelaya due to address UN Assembly (Tuesday)

Reuters Alertnet ^ | 6/29/2009 | By Patrick Worsnip

[Selene]

* Zelaya invited to come and speak 'as soon as possible'

* Assembly president urges U.N. body to denounce coup

* U.S. envoy joins OAS in demanding Zelaya restoration (Recasts with Zelaya to address General Assembly on Tuesday)

By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS, June 29 (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is expected to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at the invitation of the Assembly president, officials said on Monday.

Assembly spokesman Enrique Yeves said Zelaya was expected to speak before the 192-nation body at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT).

The Honduran military seized Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica on Sunday amid a dispute over his bid to change the Central American country's constitution to allow presidents to serve more than a single four-year term in office.

Earlier on Monday, General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto said he had written to Zelaya to come and speak "as soon as possible and give us an updated report on events in his country."

D'Escoto, a former foreign minister in the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s and a strong supporter of left-wing governments in Latin America, was speaking at an Assembly session he convened to discuss the coup in Honduras.

D'Escoto said the purpose of the session was to "consider ways to ensure the peaceful restoration of the legitimate government of President Zelaya in the hours and days ahead."

He urged the assembly to "denounce the perpetrators (of the coup) with such unanimity that no military-backed regime in Honduras will be able to withstand the criticism and rejection of the world."

Yeves said the Honduran U.N. mission was preparing a resolution on the coup that would be presented to the General Assembly after Zelaya's speech. Assembly resolutions are nonbinding.

Honduras' U.N. Ambassador, Jorge Arturo Reina, has backed Zelaya and on Monday told the Assembly: "Today my country has lost its democratic system of government."

The Honduran Congress has named Roberto Micheletti as interim president until elections due in November. Reina urged the world's nations not to accept any "illegitimate government" that took Zelaya's place.

At Monday's session, a string of speakers, mainly from Latin America, denounced the coup in Honduras.

Speaking for the United States, envoy Rosemary DiCarlo said Washington had joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in demanding the restoration of Zelaya and refusing to recognize any other government in Tegucigalpa.

"We will continue our work through the OAS to determine how best to support the Honduran people as they seek to peacefully restore their constitutional government," she said. (Editing by Xavier Briand)

[AmericanInTokyo]

You cant make this stuff up. They truly want to turn our hemisphere RED. Obama included.

Communists!

[Selene]

The UN supports every dictator in the world,

[Westbrook]

Oh, please.

The Military should have executed him for treason.

[oblomov]

“We will continue our work through the OAS to determine how best to support the Honduran people as they seek to peacefully restore their constitutional government,”

They already did, you buffoon.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds to me like somebody is in a big hurry to force Honduras to reinstall their dictator before anyone figures out what’s going on.

[Fred]

There is no way this chavez wantabbe can govern any longer in Honduras. Time for HRC and BO to shut up and wait for the outcome.

[Jeff Head]

Here is the telling thing about what happened in Honduras. EVERY Marxist in the Western Hemisphere is against it, including the Marxist Obama who is arm-and-arm with his marxist friends, Chavez and Castro on this.

That tells you that what the Honduras military did at the request of its Supreme Court and w/support from its legislature was correct, and avoided a move by Marxists to circumvent the Honduran constitution and entrench marxism in Honduras.

Bravo for them...shame on Obama, and down with his marxist dogma and ideology!

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[csvset]

Hmmm.. Will O-Bozo greet him? Hillary? (Where is Hillary these days?)

Will he be invited to DC, to the White House?

[Rome2000]

The Honduran military seized Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica

They should have thrown his communist ass out of the airplane at 20,000 feet.

This will not end well.

For him and his fellow commie son of a bitches.

[ctdonath2]

Next time they will.

[Buckeye McFrog]

yeah, just like the Venezuelan military missed their chance with Hugo

[oblomov]

Is this the same UN that has Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Pakistan, Bolivia, and Madagascar on its Human Rights Council?

[cripplecreek]

Just goes to show where the globalists stand on wannabe marxist dictators. They’re all for em, that they belong to them.

[texican01]

As we used to say back in the “Cold War”, the only good Red is a DEAD Red!

[Rome2000]

Potus Muzzie Hussein needs to stop meddling, and the GOP needs to be telling him loud and clear to stop meddling.

The morons at GOP.com have nothing on their web page about this at all.

[TigersEye]

Skip the State Run Media. Find your own news.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

Honduras Crisis: Zelaya Is A Threat To Our Democracy

Supporters of Zelaya.

Supporters of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya shout slogans outside the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum Sunday on changing the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal.(Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Supporters of Honduran rule of law.

Demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal.

A man holds a constitution of Honduras as demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal. (Photo/Esteban Felix)

Students wearing gags on their mouths protest against Honduras President Manuel Zelaya outside the Venezuelan embassy in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum on reforming the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal. (Photo/Fernando Antonio)

My thanks to Rome2000 and cripplecreek for finding and posting these photos on this thread.

[Thunder90]

You cant make this stuff up. They truly want to turn our hemisphere RED.

This is the Putin/Soviet agenda. Obama is falling into their trap as they expected.

[Thunder90]

ping

[HoosierHawk]

Ah, the United Nations...never missing an opportunity to give dictators and thugs a platform.