<p>Zelaya, who was exiled by the coup leaders, has expressed his intention to return to his home country.<br /><br />Thirty-three out of 34 members of the pan-American body, gathered here for an extraordinary session of its General Assembly, voted in favour of the expulsion.<br /><br />The assembly acted on the basis of Article 21 of the OAS Charter that gives member-nations the right to suspend membership of a country in case of an "unconstitutional interruption of democratic order" and when "efforts to address the situation through diplomatic means have failed."<br /><br />The article was used by the organization for the first time since 1962, when Cuba was suspended from the OAS following its joining the Soviet bloc.</p>
<p>Zelaya, who was exiled by the coup leaders, has expressed his intention to return to his home country.<br /><br />Thirty-three out of 34 members of the pan-American body, gathered here for an extraordinary session of its General Assembly, voted in favour of the expulsion.<br /><br />The assembly acted on the basis of Article 21 of the OAS Charter that gives member-nations the right to suspend membership of a country in case of an "unconstitutional interruption of democratic order" and when "efforts to address the situation through diplomatic means have failed."<br /><br />The article was used by the organization for the first time since 1962, when Cuba was suspended from the OAS following its joining the Soviet bloc.</p>