London, June 30, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE AMBASSADORS OF THE ALBA NATIONS IN LONDON

We, the Ambassadors of the Republic of Cuba, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Ecuador, the Republic of Nicaragua and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, do hereby state our position in relation to the military coup d’état against the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, which took place on Sunday, 28 of June, 2009. 

We reject and condemn the coup d’etat carried out against Jose Manuel Zelaya, Constitutional President of the Republic of Honduras, by the Honduran Armed Forces in connivance with the oligarchy and the reactionary forces of the country

We demand the immediate return to the legal order in the Republic of Honduras and the restitution to his duties of Manuel Zelaya, the legitimate Constitutional President of the country.

We declare that our governments do not recognize, nor will they recognize, any government other than the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya.

We call on the international community to not recognize any government other than the legitimate government of President Zelaya.

We encourage the Armed Forces of Honduras to immediately return to their barracks in order to avoid incidents that might lead to bloodshed.

We make a plea to the democratic sectors within the Armed Forces to back President Manuel Zelaya and his people.

We demand respect for the lives, liberty and dignity of the Honduran people.

We demand the immediate guarantee of freedom and respect to life and dignity currently kidnapped by the Honduran Armed Forces.

We condemn the kidnapping and abuse committed against the Ambassadors of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela by the Armed Forces of Honduras, in violation of International Law.

We also demand full respect for the life and dignity of President Zelaya’s family and for all the members of the Honduran Government.

We support the conclusions reached at the 63rd period of sessions of the United Nations General Assembly called for by its President, His Excellency Mr. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, to examine the rupture of the constitutional order in the Republic of Honduras.

We express our solidarity with the civic and democratic demonstrations of the brotherly people of Honduras who demand the restitution of President Manuel Zelaya to his duties and who struggle for the democratic order that has been ruptured.

We express our unconditional solidarity with President Manuel Zelaya.

Maria Beatriz Souviron
Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

René Mujica
Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba

Eduardo Cabezas Molina
Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador

Alicia Sandino- Terán
Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua

Samuel Moncada
Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela