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Honduran Congress puts off vote on Zelaya return
Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:13am EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran Congress on Monday avoided a vote on whether ousted President Manuel Zelaya can return to power after a coup last month, saying it was a matter for the Supreme Court to decide.
Congress head Jose Alfredo Saavedra said deputies could not rule on Zelaya's return, part of a plan by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to end the Honduras crisis, because it was a constitutional question.
The United States insisted on Monday it wants Zelaya reinstated but made no commitment to tightening sanctions to put pressure on the de facto government that replaced the leftist leader after a June 28 coup.
The coup in Honduras, an impoverished exporter of textiles and coffee, is Central America's worst political crisis in two decades and a test of U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to improving relations with Latin America.
Zelaya, an ally of Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez, was ousted as he sought a referendum vote to change the constitution, a move the Supreme Court ruled illegal. Zelaya's critics say he was trying to extend presidential term limits so he could be re-elected, but he denies the claims.
The Honduran Congress did create a committee on Monday to study some elements of Arias' proposal, including an amnesty for political crimes that would cover Zelaya, and it was expected to reach a decision by Thursday, Saavedra said.
Talks between the rivals in Honduras ran into trouble last week over the question of Zelaya's return as president, a condition that de facto leader Roberto Micheletti and his supporters have said is impossible and illegal.
Micheletti said he would nevertheless consult Congress and the Supreme Court over whether Zelaya can return.
A Supreme Court source said the court had considered the proposal on Monday but there was no word on when it would announce a judgment.
No foreign country has recognized the de facto government but Micheletti has so far refused to back down, apparently gambling he can hold out until November elections and the world will accept the new order after that.
ZELAYA WANTS MORE FROM U.S.
Obama has condemned the coup, cut military aid to Honduras and thrown his support behind the Arias plan. But Zelaya complained on Sunday that Washington is wavering and has not done enough to win his reinstatement.
Zelaya went to the border and took a few symbolic steps on Honduran soil last Friday, a gesture criticized by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "reckless."
The U.S. government said it had not changed its position.
"We want the restoration of democratic order and that includes the return by mutual agreement of the democratically elected president, and that's President Zelaya," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in Washington on Monday. Continued...
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