6-02-09, 5:40 pm

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 2 (acn) Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, demanded today an end to the Organization of American States (OAS) sanctions against Cuba, and the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against the Caribbean nation.

The Honduran leader made this statement at the opening of the 39th OAS General Assembly this Tuesday at San Pedro Sula city, in this Central American country, reported Prensa Latina news agency.

'We cannot leave this assembly without revoking the decree of the 8th meeting (in 1962) that sanctioned an entire people for having proclaimed socialist ideas and principles, now in force all over the world,' said Zelaya.

After making an appeal to undo the wrong done to a whole nation, the president said that the great American democracy (in reference to the US) has kept Cuba under siege with a useless and unfair blockade.

Zelaya pointed out that the only use for this coercive measure has been to show the world that there are brave and honorable people who would rather suffer before seeing their liberty, independence and sovereignty sullied.

The head of State said that the anti Cuban resolution must be repealed because, if kept, will make all of them accomplices to a mistake made 47 years ago.

We are not going to be accomplices to that past, he said. He also mentioned, without going into further detail, a consensus regarding a project to erase Cuba’s expulsion, adopted under strong pressures applied by the US over the new Revolution in the Caribbean nation.

The general assembly will run until tomorrow night in this northern Honduran city, some 250 kilometers from the capital, Tegucigalpa.

From the Cuban News Agency