Headlines:
| Baugh at OAS meeting about Honduras |
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| Saturday, 04 July 2009 | |
 Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Ken Baugh left the CARICOM Heads of
Government meeting in Georgetown, Guyana, Saturday morning for Washington
DC where he will be representing Jamaica
at a special assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS).The meeting comes as a follow-up to a previous special assembly of the OAS in relation to the situation in Honduras. Dr. Baugh will be participating as Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations to chart the way forward in relation to Honduras. He will return to the Jamaica Sunday to take charge of the government in the absence of Prime Minister Bruce Golding who is still at the CARICOM Heads of Government Summit in Guyana. Meanwhile, Secretary General of the OAS José Miguel Insulza is in Honduras to demand the restoration of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya.  The General Assembly is
demanding that President Zelaya, who was was removed from office on Sunday over
constitutional reform, be returned within 72 hours.He wanted to hold a referendum that could have removed the current one-term limit on serving as president, paving the way for his possible re-election. But troops backed by Congress and the courts took him from the presidential palace and put him on a plane to Costa Rica. The OAS says it will suspend Honduras if Mr Zelaya is not reinstated by Saturday. Mr. Insulza says he will do all he can to end the impasse in the Central American state. But he earlier acknowledged that it would be difficult to persuade the interim Government to take back President Zelaya. |