Zelaya to address UN General Assembly

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, 14 September 2009
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.

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