I'm completely serious.
Posted on 09/25/2009 3:11:24 PM PDT by don-o
The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since Monday. The council condemned acts of intimidation and called on the defacto Honduran authorities to stop harassing the embassy.
Security Council president for the month of September, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, read a statement from the council, in which it stressed the importance of respecting international law by preserving the inviolability of the embassy and the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.
"They [the council] condemned acts of intimidation against the Brazilian Embassy and called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy, and to provide all necessary utilities and services, including water, electricity, food, and continuity of communications," she said.
The council also called on all parties to remain calm and to avoid escalating the situation or to place individuals at risk of harm.
Friday's emergency session was requested by Brazil. Minister of External Affairs Celso Amorim told the council that the embassy has been under virtual siege by the de facto Honduran authorities.
In addition to cutting utilities and preventing supplies from going into the embassy, he said they have curtailed the movements of Brazilian diplomats.
He expressed concern that the perpetrators of the coup that ousted Mr. Zelaya might try to storm the embassy and arrest him.
"The Brazilian government is gravely concerned that the same people who perpetrated the coup d'etat might threaten the inviolability of the embassy to forcibly arrest President Zelaya," he said. "This is not a mere suspicion or speculation, some concrete indications of this possibly have been received."
Amorim said a bailiff was sent with a search warrant to the Brazilian Embassy, but was not let in. He said the de facto authorities also made reference in a letter to his government about the embassy as a "facility" run by the Brazilians, implying that it does not enjoy diplomatic status.
The council meeting was limited in scope to the situation in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, not the wider political crisis.
After President Zelaya was forced from office in June in an army-backed coup he came to the U.N. General Assembly to plead his case. In a non-binding resolution, the General Assembly demanded that he be returned to office, saying he is the legitimate constitutional leader of Honduras.
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American citizen to useless UN, back off yourself you worthless putz. Honduras, since Brazil broke off relations with you deport the embassy staff and take Zelaya into custody.
EFF U.....N.
Or Obama will be forced to engage you in a stern dialogue just like he had to do with Iranians today...
"They...called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy..." she said.
Lies, lies, lies. How disgraceful and shameful for the United States to attempt to bring down the constitutional government of Honduras and to install Zelaya in a coup through foreign intimidation.
It is NOT the "de facto" government. The current government is the "de jure" government because it holds power legally under the Honduras constitution.
It’s things like this that convince me that Homo Stupidus is de-evolving into brainless one celled plants.
I sure wish that John Bolton was in the UN.
Amen. Bolton is a good man. They are getting harder and harder to find.
Honduras should expell the Brazilian diplomats
SJB to UN Security Council “ Up yours”
That's the funny part. Brazil "suspended" diplomatic relations with Honduras three months ago. I don't think there are any Brazilian diplomats there.
I'd be curious to find out if this also means that without diplomatic relations if this means the Brazilian embassy is free game.
interesting. I guess its still property of the Brazilian government. But is still sovereign territory? Or could they raid it with a court order and arrest Zelaya or “have a shootout” with him that leaves him dead?
Dear UN bugger off. To The U.S. State Dept...bugger off also!!!
Nuts!
I'm completely serious.
VOA? WTF?
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