Former Secretary General from the Organization of American States, (OAS), Cesar Gaviria said it was “impossible” for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated since he lacks the support from the Supreme Court, Congress and the military.
Gaviria favors a transition government and a close monitoring process of the coming presidential elections as a pragmatic way out of the ongoing institutional crisis.
“It’s impossible to bring Zelaya back to the presidency, since the Supreme Court, Congress and the military do not support him” said Gaviria during his participation at the “Brazil summit” seminar organized by The Economist in Sao Paulo.
“I don’t like to talk about OAS issues, it’s very difficult, but what we must try and achieve is a transition government and an international process to monitor and check on the elections”, said Gaviria.
“Obviously it’s up to the Foreign offices and the different countries help find a solution to the Honduran crisis, but at this stage what is viable is a transition government that manages a credible electoral process”.
Gaviria who was OAS Secretary General from 1994 to 2004 also made comments on the OAS resolution on Honduras and the international mediation that followed the ousting of president Zelaya last June 28th and his return to Tegucigalpa on September 21st where he has remained holed in at the Brazilian embassy.
“I believe that there should have been some criticisms to some of the excesses committed by Zelaya while he was president and which triggered problems with the Supreme Court, with Congress and with the Armed Forces”, he underlined.
The Judiciary has decided to open a file on Zelaya for his alleged violation of the Constitution on trying to call a popular vote with the purpose of reforming the chart which specifically bans any attempts to favor or impose a presidential re-election.
According to Gaviria the OAS resolution “should have been more balanced; this would have given the inter-American system more authority to mediate in the Honduras crisis”.
From Honduras, Zelaya said that the OAS should establish a “timetable” for dialogue between him and the government of Roberto Micheletti.
“The OAS position is correct, but it must give a more determined, specific time” for the conclusion of the current dialogue. Negotiations are currently stalled and OAS has called on both sides for an effort to keep advancing with the talks.
4 responses so far ↓
1 val // Oct 23, 2009 at 5:55 am
Wow! someone speaking from the OAS that actually makes sense.
2 gonow // Oct 23, 2009 at 8:10 am
i think more and more people ” have seen the light” ……and soon they will start admitting it this is a real good start and everybody….. can thank micheletti and the congress for not giving to this would have been dictator and opinions from uninformed people all over world june 28 should celebrated as freedom day for…….. honduras with a great future ahead……
3 madrid // Oct 23, 2009 at 8:42 am
Finally…Thanks Mr Gaviria, I hope the others realize this…I will add…the people from Honduras don’t want him either…how the world could impose a president…
4 miraclemant // Oct 23, 2009 at 9:30 am
The EU just does not get it….. there is NO crisis in Hondruas…….
Just because Hondruas has a Constitution that is different than some other countries (specifically that because of the political unrest of the 70’s, article 239 was written to bar any future president from trying to change the Constitution to allow for a 2nd term of office of a president), which to the whole world made since when done, because no one wanted a repeat of the political unrest of the 70’s
and now the international community has turned against Honduras for following the rule of law, and the Constitution of Honduras?
How about if we (Honduras) start to dictate what the other countries can and can not do within their own borders….. let see how they like it when foriegn countries try to interfere with the internal political process within their own country!…..NOT something they would stand for…… and yet they want to tell Hondruas how to run our internal political process???
Stay STRONG Hondruas………
Stay STRONG Micheletti………
Only 37 more days until the free election of the people of Honduras!!!!!!