Excerpts From the Daily Press Briefing Pertaining to Western Hemisphere Affairs Full Briefing
QUESTION: First of all, the briefing has been postponed for this afternoon.
MR. KELLY: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: What’s the reason for that? Are we still going to
Honduras or has the earthquake changed the plans?
MR. KELLY: The – actually, I have a little bit for you on the earthquake that I can go to. We are not – we haven’t changed our plans to go to Honduras for the foreign ministerial meeting of the OAS. And what I have for you on the earthquake is that it was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, struck off the coast about 80 miles north-northeast. There’s some media reports of damage, including some collapsed homes, and bridges and some damage to roadways. According to media sources anyway, as you all know, there’s been one death reported by Honduran authorities. There are no reports of injuries to U.S. citizens.
The Embassy in Tegucigalpa and USAID are in contact with local disaster responders in Honduras and we’ll continue to monitor the situation. The U.S. is prepared to assist should it become necessary, but we haven’t received any request at this time. And as I say, we’ll continue to monitor the situation. But there’s been no change in the Secretary’s travel.
