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Title: Costa Rican President Arias calls on countries to back Honduras' vote
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URL Source: http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2009_11/11272009.cfm
Published: Nov 27, 2009
Author: Alex Leff
Post Date: 2009-11-29 02:45:31 by Rotara
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After bowing out from the helm of a rocky Honduran mediation process, President Oscar Arias has voiced support for Honduras' controversial presidential elections set for Sunday.
“If this Sunday's elections are transparent … I'm going to request the Ibero-American countries in this meeting in Portugal that we should recognize the future Honduran government,” Arias said in a statement.
Arias' remarks came as the international community grew divided over the question of whether Honduras is able to hold fair and transparent elections.
Leaders in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Spain and Venezuela, according to global media reports, have refused to recognize the winner of Sunday's vote, charging that one key issue – that ousted President Manuel Zelaya be restored – remains unresolved.
Meanwhile, Peru and Panama – and now Costa Rica – have joined the United States in publicly supporting the elections as the only way forward for the country that has been torn since Zelaya's June 28 ouster.
Arias said the countries that refuse to recognize the vote's legitimacy should ask themselves why they recognize the Iranian and Afghan elections, “when those elections were not clean.”
He said, “By wishing to punish the person that the Honduran people choose in the next elections, who you're really punishing are the humble Hondurans.”
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zelaya, ortega, chavez et al need to be liquidated for the good of the region and the world...IMO
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Costa Rican President Arias calls on countries to back Honduras' vote
Glad I'm not the only one that does that.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
I really like your tagline...
The Jimmuh Cahtuh of Costa Rica has a point...considering the SOB is a worthless POS...
I stole it from someone here and should have given them credit. Now I can't remember who it was. Possibly Lod.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
Exactly. You can't stand on principle if you have none.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
Agreed. If the election is legit, it should stand.
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Your previous tag, thankfully uncredited, was from me, but not this one...maybe Esso?
Agreed. If the election is legit, it should stand. I wonder why Arias recognizes the obamalamadingdong administration (along the same lines)...?
OK, is 9pm eastern, who won?
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
David Gollust | State Department 30 November 2009 Photo: AFP The president-elect of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, 30 Nov 2009 "For the countries of the Hemisphere and for the United States, to work towards the restoration of Honduras to the Organization of American States [OAS] later on, Honduras must do more than just this election," said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela. The U.S. State Department says Sunday's presidential election in Honduras was a significant, but insufficient step, to end to political crisis that began there in June with the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. U.S. officials are stopping short of recognizing opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo as the country's next president. Valenzuela said the Obama administration seeks implementation of an OAS-backed settlement plan, including the creation of a truth commission on the circumstances of the coup and a congressional vote set for Wednesday on whether Mr. Zelaya will be returned to office to complete his term, which was to end in late-January. zelaya and all his buddies; wherever they are...need a bunch of bullets and bombs shoved up their asses. IMO only of course.
Title should be:
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#2. To: Rotara, christine (#1)
#3. To: farmfriend (#2)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#4. To: farmfriend (#2)
Arias said the countries that refuse to recognize the vote's legitimacy should ask themselves why they recognize the Iranian and Afghan elections, “when those elections were not clean.”
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#5. To: Rotara, Lod (#3)
I really like your tagline...
#6. To: Rotara (#4)
#7. To: Rotara (#0)
“If this Sunday's elections are transparent … I'm going to request the Ibero-American countries in this meeting in Portugal that we should recognize the future Honduran government,” Arias said in a statement.
#8. To: farmfriend (#5)
#9. To: Flintlock (#7)
“If this Sunday's elections are transparent … I'm going to request the Ibero-American countries in this meeting in Portugal that we should recognize the future Honduran government,” Arias said in a statement.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#10. To: Rotara (#9)
#11. To: Flintlock (#10)
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http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/US-Calls-Honduras-Election-Significant-but-Insufficient-Step-to-End-Political-Crisis-78184422.html
US Calls Honduras Election Significant but Insufficient Step to End Political Crisis
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The State Department says the Honduran election met international standards for fairness and transparency and it has commended Porfirio Lobo for what it termed an "ample victory".
But at the same time, it stopped short of formally recognizing Lobo as the country's next president and says Honduras must still take steps toward political reconciliation before it can emerge from the isolation brought by the June 28 ouster of President Zelaya.
The U.S. response to the Honduran vote came Monday from Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela. The Chilean-born U.S. diplomat said the voting was a significant step, yet only a step, in Honduras' return to full democracy after the coup d'etat that drove Mr. Zelaya from office.
He said that given the gravity of the June 28th events - the region's first coup since 1991 and the political polarization of the country - more steps are required.
"For the countries of the Hemisphere and for the United States, to work towards the restoration of Honduras to the Organization of American States [OAS] later on, Honduras must do more than just this election," said Arturo Valenzuela. "It must follow a process of national reconciliation through a government of national unity, and that's what we're urging the Honduran leadership to engage in. The people of Honduras want nothing less."
The senior diplomat said the United States wants to see Mr. Zelaya restored to office. But U.S. officials have previously acknowledged that the Honduran National Congress might not support his return. Mr. Zelaya has said he does not want to be voted back into office, arguing that would vindicate a sham election.
Several key Latin American states have said they would not recognize election, arguing, like Mr. Zelaya, that it would legitimize his removal in favor of interim president Roberto Micheletti.
But Assistant Secretary of State Valenzuela stressed that the election process was well underway before the coup.
"The elections provide the Honduran people with a way out. And these elections are not elections that were planned by a de facto government at the last minute in order to whitewash their actions,"he said. "These elections were elections that began several months ago. In fact, the primaries were held in November of last year in each of the major parties."
Valenzuela minimized U.S. differences with regional powers that have rejected the election, saying that they all agree the vote in itself does not resolve the issue. He said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been engaged in telephone diplomacy with her counterparts in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay and elsewhere to explain the administration approach.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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