Honduras suspended from Organisation of American States

October 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Honduras coup leader Roberto Micheletti should step down immediately in return for an amnesty, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday. "For us, the solution will be easy if those that participated in the coup leave power and allow the legitimately elected president to take power," Lula told journalists at a summit with European Union leaders in Stockholm.

September 24th, 2009 MADRID/TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya has said he fears for his life, Spanish media reported Thursday. In a telephone interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo, Zelaya said the US and the Organisation of American States (OAS) had helped to foil one plan to kill him and to make it look like suicide.

September 12th, 2009 Honduras' interim president: US revoked my visaTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' interim president says the United States has taken away his diplomatic and tourist visas to protest the June 28 coup. Roberto Micheletti says he was expecting the action and called it "a sign of the pressure that the U.S.

August 27th, 2009 Clinton ponders action against HondurasWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is considering action against Honduras in the wake of the ouster of its president, a move that could lead to suspension of millions in U.S. development aid, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

August 7th, 2009 OAS announces delegation to HondurasWASHINGTON — The Organization of American States has named a delegation to try to persuade the interim government in Honduras to return ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The OAS says foreign ministers from Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic will travel to Honduras on Tuesday.

August 5th, 2009 Human rights delegation to travel to HondurasWASHINGTON — A human rights group plans to send a delegation to Honduras to investigate alleged abuses during the country's June 28 coup. The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights announced Wednesday that it would send a delegation from Aug.

July 31st, 2009 BRUSSELS - European Union (EU) member states should ban leaders of the coup in Honduras from travelling to Europe, EU diplomats agreed in Brussels Friday. "Each member state will monitor that (EU) policy is closely adhered to, including the possibility of restrictions to the entry into their territories by senior officials of the de facto government in Honduras," a statement from the Swedish government, which currently holds the EU presidency, said.

July 21st, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran de-facto regime Tuesday broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela, whose president Hugo Chavez has stood by President Manuel Zelaya since his unceremonious ouster and expulsion in late June. The move represented an escalation in the crisis.

July 5th, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran government set up after last week's coup intends to prevent the landing of ousted President Manuel Zelaya who was planning to return to the country Sunday. "I have ordered that his return cannot be allowed, come what may," Enrique Cortez, designated as the foreign minister of the interim government, said early Sunday.

July 5th, 2009 OAS suspends Honduras after coupWASHINGTON — The OAS on Saturday night suspended Honduras participation in the organization because of last week's military coup. Honduras' interim government has already said it's quitting the organization rather than meet demands to reinstate the ousted president.

July 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was meeting Saturday to discuss suspension of troubled Honduras just hours after the unrecognised post-coup government said it was walking out anyway. Tegucigalpa has defied the OAS demand to reinstate by Saturday the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya, who was expelled from the country by the military last weekend over power-grab suspicions.

June 30th, 2009 White House: Honduran president should returnWASHINGTON — The United States said Tuesday it saw no acceptable solution to the ouster of the president of Honduras other than returning him to power. The comments came as Honduran President Manuel Zelaya planned to travel to Washington for a special gathering of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States.

June 29th, 2009 Clinton urges restoration of order in HondurasWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States believes the unrest in Honduras "has evolved into a coup" and that officials believe the situation needs close watching. Clinton said Monday a delegation from the Organization of American States will be heading to Honduras as early as Tuesday "to begin working with the parties" on the restoration of constitutional government there.

June 5th, 2009 HAVANA - The Cuban government has hailed the decision by the Organisation of American States (OAS) to "unconditionally" reverse its 47-year-old suspension of the communist-ruled island. "On an historic day and one of vindication for the peoples of our Americas, the general assembly of the OAS today unconditionally repealed the resolution by which Cuba was expelled from that organisation," the government said in a statement read on state television.

June 3rd, 2009 SAN PEDRO SULA - The Organisation of American States (OAS) reached a consensus Wednesday on a proposal to re-admit communist Cuba after a 47-year suspension, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Fander Falconi told reporters. Cuba was suspended from the OAS in 1962, at the behest of the US, over Havana's Marxist-Leninist ideology.