SECRETARY CLINTON: I want to welcome the foreign minister of Honduras here today. He’s been in Washington holding a series of meetings with a number of officials both from our government and others as well. And I’m looking forward to my conversation with him. As I have said on numerous occasions, I think that the […]
Honduras Foreign Minister, Mario Canahuati, and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, met today to address issues such as public safety, human rights and reconciliation efforts after the exit of former President Manuel Zelaya. The Secretary expressed concern about public safety, including safety of journalists who have been targets of violence and intimidation in recent months.
President Porfirio Lobo has declared that Honduras’ truth commission will commence May 4, 2010. President Lobo empahasized the independence of the Commission, whose ultimate goal is to write an “objective and impartial” account of the incidents surrounding the June 28, 2009 political change of power. The Commission coordinator is former Guatemalan Vice President, Eduardo Stein, […]
Friday, the Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mario Canahuati plans to visit the area of the Gulf of Fonseca after two Honduran fishermen, brothers Denis and Luis Zambrano were detained by Nicaraguan troops last Friday, and have not yet been released. The men were fishing in the waters of the Gulf of Fonseca, whose shores […]
Honduran Foreign Minister, Mario Canahuati, said that President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has made a draft of the truth commission. He added that OAS Secretary of Political Affairs, Victor Rico’s arrival in the country was “to check out how the commission will be established, because it is a fundamental issue for the country.” Canahuati said the […]