 Day 14
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OAS Criticizes "Inflexibility"
In
Honduras Crisis Talks
Santiago de Chile - The secretary
general of the Organization of American
States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza,
criticized on Friday the "inflexibility" of
the negotiators to solve the political
crisis in Honduras.
Insulza told local radio station Radio
Cooperativa de Chile that there was
inflexibility of the negotiation teams in
San Jose, Costa Rica, who "lacked the will
to discuss the issue".
Honduran ousted President Manuel Zelaya and
post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti met,
separately, on Thursday with Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias to analyze the
political situation in Honduras after the
June 28 coup.
Insulza said he had expected a certain
opening to a conversation between the
interim government and President Zelaya with
the mediation of Arias to leave a better
defined frame before their departure.
"Nobody wants to accept that there was a
military coup, which pushed a president out
of his house on Sunday morning and throw him
out of the country," Insulza said.
According to Insulza, the first thing to do
is to restore Zelaya to power and then the
parties to dialogue or negotiate. "The
Congress can declare that the president
finished his charge, but it can not do it
after pushing him out of the country."
Insulza also said that it would be difficult
for Honduras to stay isolated from the
international community since it is a
country with one of the lowest income per
capita in the continent.
On June 28, Zelaya was seized by heavily
armed troops and was forced to leave the
country. The military intervention was
caused by a non-binding referendum, as
Zelaya had planed to ask citizens if they
would like to vote for a constitutional
assembly in November alongside presidential
elections. In doing so, he had defied the
Supreme Court, who argued that the
constitution had some clauses that could not
be rewritten.
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