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Zelaya vows return to Honduras
Wed Jul 1, 2009 2:55am EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed on Tuesday to return to Honduras flanked by foreign leaders to serve out his term, defying a warning from an interim government that he faces immediate arrest.
Gathering international support at the United Nations and Organization of American States, Zelaya said the Argentine and Ecuadorean presidents and the U.N. General Assembly and OAS chiefs would accompany him back to Honduras on Thursday.
But in a move fueling confrontation in Central America's worst political crisis in decades, the interim government established after Zelaya was forced out by troops said the leftist would be captured if he returned.
Several thousand demonstrators rallied to applaud Zelaya's ouster in the capital Tegucigalpa, after a day of clashes between riot police and the toppled leader's supporters broke out near the presidential palace.
"I am going back to Honduras on Thursday, I'm going to return as president," Zelaya said after the U.N. General Assembly urged member states to recognize only his government.
The coup against Zelaya -- a timber magnate toppled in a dispute over his push to allow presidential re-election beyond a single four-year term -- has been greeted by a tide of condemnation from U.S. President Barack Obama to Zelaya's leftist allies in Latin America.
Zelaya remains a divisive figure in Honduras, an impoverished coffee, textile and banana-exporter of 7 million people, especially after he allied himself with fierce U.S. foe Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Enrique Ortez, the interim government's foreign minister, told CNN's Spanish-language channel that Zelaya had charges pending against him for violating the constitution, drug trafficking and organized crime.
"As soon as he enters he will be captured. We have the warrants ready so that he stays in jail in Honduras and is judged according to the country's laws," he said.
But in a development that could offer an opening for negotiations on ending the stand-off, the interim government said it would send a delegation of politicians, business leaders and lawyers to Washington on Wednesday for talks.
Roberto Micheletti, sworn in as caretaker president by Congress soon after the coup, announced the mission after Zelaya traveled to New York and Washington to address the United Nations and Organization of American States.
OAS HOLDS LATE NIGHT SPECIAL SESSION
After arriving in Washington, Zelaya met Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon.
"We recognize him as the legal constitutional president of Honduras, and underscore our commitment to work with the OAS to restore Honduras' constitutional order," Shannon told Reuters, speaking in a hallway of the OAS building.
The OAS began a special session late on Tuesday that continued into Wednesday to debate its role in the situation. Continued...
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