Republic of Honduras
Ambassador Mary Elizabeth Flores
Honduras has been a member of the United Nations since December 17, 1945. Mary Elizabeth Flores has served as the Honduras’s permanent representative to the UN since April 2010. The following is excerpted from Ambassador Flores’s statement during UN General Assembly debate on November 29, 2012, on the status of Palestine in the United Nations. As we voted today in favor of Resolution 67/19 on the status of Palestine in the United Nations, the Government of Honduras could not help but recall the motives that led our peoples to establish this extraordinary organization — to save succeeding generations from…