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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Honduras heaps pressure on US to let Cuba back in OAS AFP - 2 hours 33 minutes ago SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AFP) - - Honduras heaped pressure on the United States Tuesday when it urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to immediately lift communist Cuba's 47-year-suspension from the body. ADVERTISEMENT "My friends, it's time to correct that mistake," said President Manuel Zelaya, host of the general assembly attended by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her counterparts from the 33 other OAS active members. "If we were to leave this place without rescinding the decision of 1962, we would... become complicit, colluding with that mindset of yesterday," Zelaya told the OAS's annual policy-setting gathering in San Pedro Sula. He said Cuba's suspension had "punished an entire people for having proclaimed Socialist ideas and principles that today are practiced in all parts of the world." His call came after the start of the OAS meeting where the United States faces increased isolation in the body, even though President Barack Obama has broken with his predecessor George W. Bush to start improving ties with Cuba. Clinton is sticking to her administration's demands that the OAS abide by the democratic principles enshrined in its own charter and force Cuba to free political prisoners and improve basic rights before it returns to the fold. In addition to Honduras, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua are setting no conditions. They all call the exclusion of Cuba a "historic mistake." These and other OAS members argue that the reasons that led to Cuba's suspension -- its membership in the Soviet bloc -- no longer apply after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. A more flexible plan than that proposed by Washington has generated support from 26 of the 34 member states, such as more moderate leftist countries like Brazil and Chile, those close to the negotiations said on Monday. There was no immediate US reaction to Zelaya's speech but Clinton appeared optimistic earlier Tuesday. "I know we've had some discussions about this. I hope we will have more... and I'm confident we can come up with a common way forward," Clinton told Caribbean diplomats at a pre-assembly breakfast meeting. In his opening remarks, OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza appealed for the customary consensus in the organization. "We want to make progress and leave behind a past that for many is not positive, but not at the cost of falling into new divisions," Insulza told the assembly. Clinton has sought to answer critics who say Washington is not moving fast enough on Cuba by highlighting the changes that have already occurred. The United States, under President Barack Obama, "is taking a completely new approach toward our policy toward Cuba," Clinton told the Caribbean diplomats earlier. Since taking office in January, the Obama administration has called past US policy a failure and moved to ease ties with Cuban President Raul Castro, who officially took over the reins from older brother Fidel last year. The United States has lifted curbs on travel, as well as money transfers, by Cuban-Americans with relatives in Cuba. The United States still effectively bans travel to neighboring Cuba by the majority of Americans, however. It has also announced in the last few days that Cuba had agreed to resume long-stalled talks on Cuban immigration to the United States as well as to begin discussions on direct mail links. Even though Cuba itself rejects the OAS, analysts said, many countries want to use the debate to push for a lifting of the decades-old US embargo on Havana, while others want to embarrass the United States. They added that the debate has grown in force as Obama has raised hopes among many of his southern neighbors that he will soon support and push for an end to the 47-year-old US embargo on Cuba. The OAS is also focusing on crime, drug trafficking, climate change and the effects of the global economic crisis. 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