UN General Assembly
2009

d’état has become a genuine example of justice and truth. I am sure that my Government, which has ensured the total independence of this investigation, will get to the heart of the matter and that the truth will soon be found. We have worked hard on the security of our citizens, and I recognize that it is a long and complicated process. Here again, the assistance of the International Commission is essential, and we believe that this experience will be effectively used by our Public Ministry, which has already begun the process of re-engineering and restructuring itself. I should like to mention the case of Honduras, our fraternal neighbouring country. From the very beginning, Guatemala has supported a return to democracy and the rule of law in Honduras. Nowhere in the world, much less in Central America — where democracy has cost us so many lives and where so many deaths and, in the case of Guatemala, massacres, have affected us — can we allow a President to be deposed at gunpoint and fail to use democratic and