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OAS General Assembly Resolution to Lift the Suspension of Honduras

The Resolution “Participation of Honduras in the Organization of American States" was approved today during the Forty-first Special Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) to lift Honduras's suspension from its right to participate in the Organization.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

RECALLING Article 22 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter which provides that once the situation that led to suspension of a member state has been resolved, that suspension may be lifted;

CONSIDERING resolution AG/RES. 2 (XXXVII-E/09) which suspended “the Honduran state from the exercise of its right to participate in the Organization of American States, in accordance with Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter” as a result of the coup d’etat against the constitutional government of that country on June 28, 2009;

SHARING the conviction that democracy is one of our region’s most valued accomplishments and that the peaceful transfer of power through constitutional means and in strict compliance with the constitutional rules of each of our states is the product of a continuous and irreversible process in which the region admits no interruption or setbacks; and

NOTING WITH SATISFACTION the Agreement for National Reconciliation and Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras signed at Cartagena de Indias on May 22, 2011, by the President of the Republic of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, and the former President of the Republic of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, witnessed by the mediators Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of the Republic of Colombia, and Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and noting also its Follow-Up Committee,

RESOLVES:

1. To lift the suspension, with immediate effect, of the right of the State of Honduras to participate in the Organization of American States, which was put into effect by resolution AG/RES. 2 (XXXVII-E/09), adopted on July 4th, 2009 at the Thirty-Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly.

2. To instruct the Secretary General to notify the Government of the State of Honduras of the contents of this Resolution.

3. To instruct the Secretary General to transmit this Resolution to the other organs, agencies and entities of the inter-American system and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

4. To welcome the Agreement for National Reconciliation and Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras and its Follow-Up Committee, within the framework of full respect for the principle of non-intervention.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-23