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US Secretary of State Leaves OAS Assembly over Request about Cuba

CUBA, June 3, 2009. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, left the Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), after rejecting the position of Latin American heads of state and foreign ministers for lifting the expulsion of Cuba and apologizing for the damage caused to that nation.

It was expected that the matter would be closed during the OAS meeting, but the US official left Honduras without giving way on her position and demands with respect to Cuba, Granma newspaper reports on Wednesday.

For his part, host president Manuel Zelaya demanded the end of the OAS sanctions against Cuba and the blockade imposed on that nation by the United States.

Zelaya made a firm appeal on these matters during the inauguration of the 39th General Assembly of the OAS.

We can't leave this Assembly without abolishing the decree of the 8th meeting (in 1962), without correcting that mistake and that terrible wrong, which sanctioned an entire people for having proclaimed Socialist ideas and principles that are practiced everywhere in the world, he said.

Shortly after the inauguration, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega made a statement on this subject during a press conference in which his counterparts from Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and Paraguay, Fernando Lugo,also participated.

The head of state explained that the OAS has been, since its creation in 1948, an instrument of domination of the United States against the Latin American and Caribbean nations, indifferent to the interests of the peoples in the region.

He also warned that what has changed in the United States is the president, but not its system of imperialist domination.

For his part, the Paraguayan head of state declared in favor of the elimination of the anti-Cuban measures, which, he said, have no reason to exist, and of the need for a united continent. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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