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Dominican Republic Takes Honduras Case to
NAM Summit
Santo Domingo - Dominican President
Leonel Fernandez will present to the
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) the situation in
Honduras and the regional stance in relation
to the coup in that country, Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya announced in this
capital on Friday.
Fernandez and Zelaya met for an hour and 15
minutes at the National Palace behind closed
doors and then gave a joint press
conference.
The Dominican president will present at the
Non Aligned Movement Summit the stance by
the members of the Central American
Integration System, the Rio Group and the
Organization of American States, said Zelaya,
who will not attend the summit, because he
has other things to deal with throughout the
continent.
Zelaya, who took most of the conference
time, highlighted that "the world is
demanding democracy (for Honduras), a
principle is being defended against a way of
acting, reason over strength, peace over
violence."
He related how he was taken out of his
residence "under a shooting," and expelled
by the pro-coup faction, in a violation of a
constitutional principle that prohibits
expatriation of any Honduran."
He quoted overthrown Chilean constitutional
President Salvador Allende, as saying in his
last speech that "the wide tree-lined
avenues, along which the free men will walk,
will be open sooner than later."
About the current strategy of the Honduran
de facto government, he explained that it is
based on presenting the coup as a
"democratic coup."
Questioned about the de facto government
actions, he quoted by heart one of the
articles of his country's Constitution,
according to which "nobody owes obedience to
a usurper government, the actions by which
lack validity and constitute crimes."
Fernandez spoke about this point,
highlighting that "legitimacy of power
emerges from the people and it is only
relevant to President Zelaya."
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