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Honduras stalemate persists as talks set to start
Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:46am EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will seek to openly return to his country if mediation talks on Saturday fail to reinstate him, his wife said on the eve of the discussions in Costa Rica.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is due to host the talks between delegations representing Zelaya, toppled in a June 28 coup, and the interim government led by Roberto Micheletti, who was installed by Honduras' Congress after the ouster.
"Time runs out tomorrow," Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, told Reuters in an interview Friday in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. "He has to come back to the country. He has to come publicly."
She gave no clear indication of the timing of his return, but said he would not negotiate on his demand to be reinstated. Zelaya had given an ultimatum that either the Costa Rica talks restored him to office or he would consider them failed.
Micheletti has so far defied international calls for Zelaya to be reinstated and ruled out his return to office. He says Zelaya was removed because he violated the constitution by seeking to lift presidential term limits.
"A dialogue cannot just be an ultimatum," said Micheletti's interim foreign minister, Carlos Lopez.
The entrenched positions on both sides make more difficult Arias' task to try to find a compromise settlement to defuse Central America's worst political crisis since the Cold War.
Earlier, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a leftist ally of Zelaya, had said the ousted president would go back to Honduras "in the coming hours," suggesting an imminent return.
But Zelaya's wife made clear that he was going to give the talks in Costa Rica an opportunity to reinstate him.
Zelaya is currently in Nicaragua, which borders Honduras.
Micheletti's interim government has threatened to arrest him if he returns home.
A previous attempt by Zelaya to fly home on July 5 in a Venezuelan plane provided by Chavez was thwarted by Honduran troops who prevented the plane from landing in Tegucigalpa. At least one person was killed in clashes between troops and Zelaya supporters at the airport.
The United States, which is strongly backing Arias' mediation efforts, urged states in the region to avoid actions that could push the situation into violence.
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On Friday, supporters of the ousted president, clamoring for his reinstatement, blocked major highways in Honduras, including the northern access into Tegucigalpa. Continued...
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