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Honduran Post-Coup Government Says Willing
To Negotiate With OAS
Tegucigalpa - The Honduran interim
government on Sunday voiced its willingness
to have talks with the Organization of
American States (OAS) after a June 28 coup
that ousted President Manuel Zelaya has put
the two sides at odds.
The interim government led by Roberto
Micheletti has offered to send a delegation
to the OAS after the latter Saturday decided
to suspend Honduras' membership after the
post-coup authorities missed a deadline on
Zelaya's reinstatement, Martha Lorena
Alvarado, defense minister of Micheletti's
government, told local media.
The declaration came shortly after
Micheletti accused the Nicaraguan forces of
gathering in the two countries' border
region.
Micheletti told media Sunday that Nicaragua
had begun "a psychological invasion" by
sending small groups of troops to the
border, although they have not crossed the
borderline.
He called on Nicaragua to respect Honduras'
sovereignty but warned that Honduras was not
afraid of defending itself.
The Nicaraguan authorities have officially
denied Micheletti's accusations.
Also on Sunday, Zelaya, who took a plane for
home, failed to land at the airport in this
Honduran capital because the runway was
blocked by military vehicles and groups of
soldiers.
Zelaya instead landed in Nicaragua and vowed
to try again Monday or Tuesday to return
home for a reinstatement.
Zelaya was removed from office in a military
coup on June 28, just hours after some 200
soldiers surrounded his official residence
and forced him to board a plane to Costa
Rica after a referendum scheduled for the
same day on changing the country's
constitution put Zelaya at odds with the
military, the courts and the legislature.
In the vote, Hondurans were asked whether
they would back an official referendum in
November, to be held alongside the scheduled
presidential election, on changing the
constitution to allow a president to seek
re-election.
The opposition accused Zelaya, whose current
term expires next January, of seeking
reelection through the referendum, while the
Supreme Court and the attorney general said
that the vote was illegal.
The congress announced after the coup that
Micheletti would replace Zelaya as the
country's acting president.
Both the United Nations and the OAS have
condemned the coup and called for an
immediate reinstatement of Zelaya. |
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