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Agreement
In Sight: Honduras' Zelaya Tells Supporters
TEGUCIGALPA, - Deposed
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya assured his
supporters on Sunday that an agreement would
soon be reached on settling the country's
political crisis.
"I cannot give details of how this will be
achieved, but Honduras cannot remain in this
situation," Zelaya told the local
broadcasting station Radio Globo.
Negotiators representing Zelaya and the
post-coup government on Friday ended talks
that lasted more than two weeks.
On Friday, Mayra Mejia, who represented
Zelaya at the talks, told media that her
team considered the process of negotiation
exhausting. The talks had been going on
since Oct. 7, when a group of foreign
ministers and senior officials from the
Organization of American States visited
Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa.
Zelaya has insisted on returning to office
before Nov. 29, when general elections are
due in which he cannot stand. The de facto
government, led by former legislature
speaker Roberto Micheletti, has said that
elections must go ahead, but Zelaya insists
that any such poll would be illegitimate if
he was not restored to power.
The United States, Honduras' top trade
partner and source of foreign aid, has
refrained from declaring a clear cut
position on the issue, causing the region's
politicians to accuse it of giving tacit
backing for Honduras' coup.
The Micheletti government has not received
recognition from any nation or international
body.
In a coup on June 28, Zelaya was kidnapped
at home, forced onto a military aircraft and
flown to Costa Rica. He returned to
Tegucigalpa at the end of September
surreptitiously, and has been hiding in the
Brazilian embassy since. |
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