Nicaragua rejects UN peacekeeper deployment in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Nicaragua rejects UN peacekeeper deployment in Honduras
2009-07-20 09:41:53

MANAGUA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Sunday rejected the idea of deploying UN peacekeeping troops in Honduras to defuse the political tension following the June 28 coup.

Speaking at a military ceremony, Ortega said the only viable way to solve the Honduran crisis is a full respect for the resolutions passed by the Organization of American States and the United Nations by the post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti.

Nicaragua shares a long border with Honduras.

"We call on Honduras' soldiers to stop repressing their brothers and to stop dyeing the territory of brother nation Honduras with blood," he told some 500,000 audience at La Fe Place, the biggest public square in the capital of Managua.

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