Mercosur parliament condemns coup in Honduras

Source: Xinhua

Mercosur parliament condemns coup in Honduras
2009-08-18 10:30:26

MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The parliament of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) approved a declaration on Monday to condemn the coup in Honduras and support ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The legislature said it would help seek a solution to "guarantee respect for democracy" in Honduras.

The parliament also urged "all political and social actors to retake the path of pacific and democratic dialogue."

The parliament expressed "its strongest condemnation" to Honduran millitary's overthrowing of "a constitutional government."

On Monday noon, the Mercosur parliament held here its 6th extraordinary session to install Juan Dominguez from Uruguay as the rotating chairman of the organization, replacing Ignacio Mendoza from Paraguay.



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long enough so that Zelaya doesn't get back in before his term is up? That the plan? Is Negroponte still advising the State Dept? Is Otto Reich working for the CIA or not?

Surely they opposed the repressive dictator Zelaya as much as they do Chavez?

or sleeping in late spanking the Monkey.

Mercosur warns it rejects any attempt to call new elections in Honduras

As was anticipated Mercosur released a strong condemnation of the Honduran de facto government and demanded the immediate reinstatement of constitutional president Manuel Zelaya.

The leaders of Mercosur, full members and associates, meeting Friday in Paraguay for the biannual summit warned they will not accept as valid any elections which the coup government of interim president Roberto Micheletti could call in the near future.

“The presidents reaffirm that they will not recognize any government born out of this constitutional rupture, that they will not accept as valid unilateral actions emanated from illegitimate Honduran authorities, including the call for elections”, said the document signed by all leaders.

“The constitutional and legitimate government of Honduras is that headed by President Manuel Zelaya, whose physical integrity and that of all its government members is essential to preserve”.

“We express our most energetic condemnation of the coup and the arbitrary arrest and exclusion from the country of President Zelaya” underlined the release.

Earlier during the meeting Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that “we can’t accept the fiction of tolerating a government with ousts a legitimate government, later is committed to calling elections and recognizes this process as valid, and ends legitimizing the coup”.

“We must condemn any benevolent coup attempt, that is, when through a civilian-military coup legitimate authorities are ousted followed by attempts to legalize the situation by calling new elections. This would be the death kiss for the OAS democratic charter and turning the Mercosur democratic charter in mere fiction”, argued Mrs. Kirchner.

http://en.mercopress.com/2009/07/25/mercosur-warns-it-rejects-any-attempt-to-call-new-elections-in-honduras