Honduras' Foreign Minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca (Front) holds a cell phone through which Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya makes his address to the annual debate at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, on Sept. 28, 2009. Manuel Zelaya addressed the UN General Assembly via mobile phone on Monday, urging the world body to restore the rule of law in his country. (Xinhua/Shen Hong) Photo Gallery>>>

    UNITED NATIONS, Sept 28 (Xinhua) -- Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya on Monday addressed the UN General Assembly via mobile phone, urging the world body to restore the rule of law in his country.

    "I call on the United Nations to restore the rule of law and the freedom that Honduras deserves," he said over a cell phone held by his Foreign Minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca during her address to the annual debate at the UN headquarters in New York.

    Zelaya said that a June military coup that toppled him has subjected Honduras to a dictatorship.

Honduras' Foreign Minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca holds a cell phone through which Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya makes his address to the annual debate at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, on Sept. 28, 2009. Manuel Zelaya addressed the UN General Assembly via mobile phone on Monday, urging the world body to restore the rule of law in his country. (Xinhua/Shen Hong) Photo Gallery>>>

    "I called on the UN to provide support to maintain a firm position against barbarity, " said the ousted president from his refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras' capital city of Tegucigalpa.

    He also requested the UN to "give the guarantees for our own personal integrity as well as the lives of the people who have been attacked by chemical gas and electricity interference" at the diplomatic site of Brazil.

    At the end of his four minutes' talk, Zelaya called on the UN "to give assistance to reverse this coup d'ete and to ensure the democracy is available to all nations."

    His brief remarks drew applause from the Honduran diplomats sitting at the GA hall as well as other diplomats, mostly Latin American, some of them stood.

    Since Zelaya fled into the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa on Sept. 21, the Honduran military police has cut the embassy public services and blocked its supplies. The de facto government has given the embassy 10 days to decide whether to grant Zelaya asylumor hand him over.

    On Friday the UN Security Council stressed the need to ensure the security of the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya turned up after being ousted by the military in June.