Costa Rican President
Inaugurates Tuxtla Summit
Costa Rican president Oscar Arias
inaugurated Wednesday the 11th Tuxtla Summit
of presidents and heads of the state from
the Dialogue and Agreement Mechanism, with a
speech centered on the Honduran conflict.
The summit was held in Pinilla Hacienda,
Guanacaste, with the
participation of the presidents or
representatives from Colombia, Mexico,
Central America and Dominican Republic
attended the meeting.
Arias called on participants of the summit
to take the Honduran case as an example to
impede new damages to the democracy in the
continent and not to go backwards on the
advances achieved after years of armed
conflicts.
Arias, also mediator of the political
conflict in Honduras, requested the interim
Honduran government to make its position
more flexible regarding the "Acuerdo de San
José" (San José Accord)".
In the "Acuerdo de San José" Arias proposes
the return of Zelaya to power, and amnesty
for the political crimes committed before
and after the coup of June 28.
"The Honduran nation faces two
possibilities: it reverts the walked path,
annulling certain acts, despite they were
done in good faith and with conviction of
following the laws and the Constitution of
the republic, or it faces the absolute
exclusion," Arias said.
"That is not a threat nor a signal of enmity
with the Honduran People. It is just the
reaction that the international law foresees
for this kind of circumstances," Arias
added.
During the summit the presidents and leaders
will also discuss the A/H1N1 influenza
pandemic, the economic international crisis
as well as the regional development and
investment plans.
Tuxtla summit will finish Wednesday with a
presidential declaration including all the
agreement reached during the meeting.
Also delegates from different organizations
of the continent attended the summit.
Presidents or representatives of Colombia,
Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Central
American countries attend the 11th Tuxtla
Summit of the Dialogue and Agreement
Mechanism at Pinilla Hacienda, 279
kilometers northwest of San Jose, Costa
Rica.
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