Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General, Chilean José Miguel Insulza, does not intend to answer to President Hugo Chávez, who railed on him and asked him to resign.

"I am not available to exchange insults with anybody, let alone with the heads of member states," said Insulza, as quoted by Santiago media, AFP reported.

Chávez urged the OAS Secretary-General to resign when he criticized the Venezuelan government reluctance to renew a broadcasting license to private TV channel RCTV.

Ironically, Chávez headed a campaign in 2005 in support of Insulza over Luis Ernesto Derbez, then Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs for the top OAS position.

"Insipid Insulza should quit the OAS Secretariat for daring to play the role of an empire viceroy," Chávez commented.

Last Friday, Insulza asked Chávez to think it over concerning his decision on the channel founded in 1953 for being an "unprecedented action over the past few decades under democracy" in Latin America.

"Closing a mass medium is an uncommon event in the history of our hemisphere; it is an unprecedented event over the past few decades under democracy," Insulza noted.