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Zelaya demands presidency as U.N. condemns Honduras
Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:02pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya warned on Friday that negotiations to end a three-month political crisis will collapse unless the coup leaders who toppled him agree to give up power.
As the United Nations condemned the de facto government in Honduras for "acts of intimidation" at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa where Zelaya has taken refuge, the leftist leader overthrown in a June 28 coup said he met with a government representative for talks but little progress was made.
He also called on his supporters to descend on the capital to pressure the government of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, who has so far resisted all international demands that he allow Zelaya to return to office.
"We urge the resistance to keep fighting until together the people and president achieve... the fall of the usurpers," Zelaya said. "We see no willingness on the part of the de facto government to reinstate the president."
After being forced into exile by the coup, Zelaya sneaked back home on Monday and sought refuge in the Brazilian embassy to avoid arrest as he campaigns for his return to power.
The United States, the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS) all have condemned Zelaya's ouster.
The U.N. Security Council called on the de facto government on Friday to "cease harassing" the Brazilian embassy but did not debate Zelaya's future.
Hundreds of soldiers and riot police have surrounded the Brazilian compound, where Zelaya is holed up with his family and about 40 supporters despite food and water shortages.
Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Amorim, said at the U.N. session that the standoff "poses a threat to the peace and security of our region" and demanded that Micheletti's government respect the sovereignty of the embassy.
He also complained that the coup leaders were only sporadically allowing food and supplies into the embassy, where Zelaya spends his much of his time speaking to the media while his entourage take turns sleeping on the floor and two sofas.
TEST FOR OBAMA
The crisis in Honduras is President Barack Obama's first diplomatic test in Latin America, a region where Washington's influence has waned in recent years.
Obama has cut U.S. aid to Honduras since the coup and pushed for Zelaya's return, but several Latin American leaders say he has not done enough to broker a solution.
The U.S. government has left the crisis in the hands of the OAS, and Friday's debate at the United Nations did not address the broader issue of settling the Honduras crisis.
"The council looks to the regional mediation (of the OAS) to continue its work on the larger political question of Honduras," said U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, currently president of the Security Council. Continued...
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