Honduran president urges
UN to legalize
migration, encourage
free trade
Honduran President Jose
Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday
urged the United Nations
to include migration in
its development agenda,
and called for the
creation of truly free
trade in the world, news
reaching here said.
During a speech to the
62nd session of the
United Nations General
Assembly, Zelaya said
that "migration is not,
has not been, and should
not be considered a
crime or a menace."
Honduras has always been
a generator of migrants
and its territory has
been traveled by others
on their way to the
United States to seek a
better life.
Zelaya proposed a legal
framework so that
migration can become an
orderly phenomenon that
benefits all.
He also said
international trade
currently operates in a
manner that is "just as
unequal as the
relationships between
powerful nations and
economically weak ones."
The president called on
the European Union and
the United States to
remove their tariffs and
other barriers on
Honduran products
including bananas and
textiles. |
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