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Honduras pact crumbles over unity government
Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:40pm EST
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed on Friday after two rival leaders failed to form a unity cabinet to heal the damage from a June coup.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya declared the pact dead just a week after it was signed and called on Hondurans to boycott presidential elections this month because, in a surprise move, de facto leader Roberto Micheletti moved to form a new government without him.
The failure of a U.S.-driven deal to end the crisis throws into question whether foreign governments will recognize the result of Honduras' November 29 presidential election and means any incoming government could inherit a chaotic political situation and be cut off from vital international aid.
Zelaya and Micheletti had agreed to form a unity government by Thursday, but then they clashed over who would lead the cabinet until Congress decided whether to reinstate Zelaya.
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department, which had pushed the two sides to the deal last week, tried to downplay its collapse, saying: "The only deadline was to form a government of national unity, which was done."
But the head of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza deplored the breakdown and urged both men to comply with the agreements and restore the democratically elected president "without further subterfuges."
Zelaya, who was toppled and sent into exile in a June 28 coup, insisted he would not go back to the negotiating table.
"It's impossible. The thing is completely worn out and it makes no sense to continue," he told a Chilean radio station from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has been holed up since sneaking back into Honduras in September.
Brazil also lined up against Micheletti, condemning "the delay tactics of the de facto government in Honduras" and adding that Zelaya was under no pressure to leave its embassy.
Outside the embassy, a heavy contingent of soldiers and military vehicles was deployed. Inside, Zelaya called for peaceful protests by his supporters around the country and told his long-faced supporters "only God knows what happens next."
The impoverished coffee and textile-exporting country has been isolated diplomatically and cut off from millions of dollars of international aid for social programs since the coup. The European Union said on Friday that it would continue suspending aid until the crisis was resolved.
MICHELETTI MOVES ALONE
Zelaya had declined to name any members to a unity government, saying it was offensive to form a cabinet when it had not been decided who would lead it, and Micheletti said he was going ahead without them.
"We've completed the process of forming a unity government ... It represents a wide spectrum despite the fact that Mr. Zelaya did not send a list of representatives," Micheletti said in a televised speech.
Ministers from the de facto cabinet resigned to make way for the new government, which Micheletti said will include names put forward by different political factions. Continued...
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