Zelaya to address UN General Assembly

UN: 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.

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