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SECREFARIA DE REL.A.C*NEs EXTEMORES

DE LA REPUBLICA DE HON:DDRAs

OFFICIAL"TR. No, 1112 DGPEIDS M-10

Teg ut io- M..D.C, 5 de junio 2010.

Your Excellency:
am honored to greet Your E.xoellency on the occas on o eferring to the: manifest openness of the
Honduras , presiced by MiSier Porfirio Lobe Sosa, regarding the return of e.x-Presi&
Manuel Zelaya Rosales to our country.
In the first place I, must refer that President Lobe Sosa, in an act. of profourr, respect, on the same
day of his inauguration as the Coat tutionai President of the Repit.ib ic, negotiatedttie issuance of a
safe passage by which ex-Pre_ e , 7.elaya, his family and close supporters were oh e to end an
•stay. o. rnoths. in the Embassy of Brsz 1 , alpa.
unfortunatc:. closf,?iy-guarded
His leaving country for the ....‘torninican nation for which we h a (lee, appreciation
because of the role aSSUITed itS President, Mister Leonel Fern,-',Indez, represented the end of a
period of resYotiorts and gre ,,1 limltations for ex-President. Lelaya and his fami This act of
openness on the part of President Lobo Sosa was, at that time, publicly appreciated -;.%- President
Write: 2.

As you :m-e r-Altical crisis :,, erioncc: ,',1 by Honduras., resulted th.e presentation of a
series of detiVICJ:. tc.) initiat:on of la proceed ::,fit:o Y;civil and penal character
against. ex-President Manttel Zelaya end some of These proceedings : presented in
Honduran throuqh l", , j tealter Genill of the F are stilt in effect and have derivel
arret. warrants against. ex-President 1: and officials who accompanied him iv: the.
of Itt Presidericv
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Let ilia emphasize that most of those ..ls who accornpant:t. ,,,x-Presided a have be.gun
return. to Honclittas. and have receNed, with no exception, just, correct and " treatmerlt, None of
them have been indicied; all are ;:Monding their causit-t-s under the. proteutio.ri Ditzlventive and
aubstNEthR thr.iir trio s : 'rove ra.c.eived a fm el acquittal.

The iSSUarICe Of a Political .A.mriesty by the pp ate 0.,:irores.5 is *0 transcenderu conroution.

the search 'r..r.tr pe. , ice and justice in the country, The. aritinstv provIdes titkis possibility of El .p.;:riltion for
alleged. politica: and incidental crimes 1c.n Those Hon:dui -an cirizen$ trwolved t.._cris:s and, in fact
s.ervati to protect Maclaine Rebeca eX-Minister of: Finanoe, cifficial [Ti the Goverrrnent
of Manuel Zolava Rosales,

Your -ellency
Mr. JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA
Secretary C.::ienera of Organization of American (OAS)
Was . ,C, United SttleS Of Affietin
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