Miguel d’Escoto
President, United Nations General Assembly
Miguel d’Escoto, a Nicaraguan diplomat and Catholic priest, was elected to the presidency of the UN General Assembly on June 4, 2008. His one-year term presiding over the 63rd Session of the General Assembly began in September 2008. The following is excerpted from d’Escoto’s June 29, 2009, address on the Situation in Honduras to the Plenary Session of the UN General Assembly. It is with a heavy heart and deep personal outrage that I open this plenary session to consider the coup d’état that interrupted the democratic and constitutional rule of President Manuel Zelaya in the Republic of Honduras yesterday,…
