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Brazil
Not To Recognize New Honduran Government
MANAUS, Brazil - Brazil
will not recognize as legitimate a new
Honduran government to emerge in the
upcoming elections in Honduras this weekend,
minister of External Relations Celso Amorim
said Thursday.
Amorim said that the results of the
elections would not be recognized if deposed
Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was
not restituted to his presidency.
Neither the de facto leader Roberto
Micheletti nor Zelaya are running for
president.
Earlier in the day, the Brazilian foreign
minister had over-one-hour talks over phone
with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, and Honduras was one of the topics
of the conversation. But divergence remained
between the two sides.
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva and Argentine President Cristina
Kirchner have both voiced their rejection to
the elections in Honduras.
This was a common position of much of Latin
America and the Caribbean region, according
to the Brazilian president.
However, Washington has expressed its
position to recognize the winner of the
Honduran elections.
Amorim was here to attend the summit between
the Amazon basin countries and France on
climate change.
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