Nicaragua Rejects UN Peacekeeper Deployment
in Honduras
Managua - 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.
He also denied the saying that his country
would send troops to Honduras to restore
Zelaya.
The OAS has suspended Honduras' membership
after the Central American country ignored
an OAS ultimatum to reinstate ousted
president Manuel Zelaya, who was forced in
to exile after the military coup.
A special session of the OAS general
assembly has passed a resolution to
immediately suspend the post-coup government
in Honduras.
Officials and representatives from Venezula,
Cuba, Guatemala and Chile participated in
the ceremony. Patricia Rodas, former foreign
minister of the deposed President Zelaya,
was also present at the gathering. |
