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Honduras' Micheletti backs off Brazil deadline
Thu Oct 1, 2009 12:30am EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - De facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti on Wednesday backed away from a deadline set for Brazil to decide on the fate of ousted leader Manuel Zelaya, who has been holed up at the Brazilian embassy for more than a week after sneaking back from exile.
Zelaya, who antagonized conservative elites and business leaders with his ties to Venezuela's socialist government, was overthrown by the army in June, triggering Central America's worst political crisis in years.
The de facto government gave Brazil a 10-day deadline last week to decide whether to hand over Zelaya to face treason charges or grant him asylum. Troops have ringed the mission for the past week and the government threatened to close the embassy if Brazil did not comply.
Micheletti has come under increasing pressure from the international community and even local supporters to resolve the crisis and lift an emergency decree that suspended civil liberties and shut two media outlets loyal to Zelaya.
Micheletti's foreign minister had said Brazil would lose its diplomatic mission if there was no resolution. But Micheletti backed away from the ultimatum, telling Reuters in an interview he had not been consulted before the announcement.
"We are not are going to do anything that breaks with the international accords we have," Micheletti said. "They can stay there as long as they want. All we need is for Brazil to guarantee its mission is not used for political campaigning."
Riot police surrounded a government building in Tegucigalpa on Wednesday and cleared out 57 Zelaya supporters who had taken over the office and holed up there since the overthrow of Zelaya, a logging magnate who favors cowboy hats.
Seeking to end the standoff, the Organization of American States plans to send a delegation of foreign ministers to Honduras next week to try to broker negotiations between Zelaya and Micheletti.
Micheletti said on Wednesday he is considering calls to roll back the decree, but Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur TV, the two pro-Zelaya media outlets suspended by the government, remained shut.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has joined an international chorus calling for Micheletti to lift the restrictions and stop threatening Brazil's embassy. Local lawmakers have also pressured Micheletti to end the decree.
Regional powerhouse Brazil has rejected Micheletti's deadline and called for more pressure. The United States has demanded Honduras roll back the measures.
OAS SEES DIALOGUE
The two sides are deadlocked over how to resolve the crisis in Central America's No. 2 coffee producer. Zelaya insists he must be reinstated, but Micheletti says the deposed leader must face treason charges and insists that a new leader will be picked in a November election.
But Micheletti said an envoy was keeping a channel of communication open with the Zelaya camp.
An OAS representative in Tegucigalpa preparing for the delegation from the region's top diplomatic body on Wednesday said there were positive signals before the visit. Continued...
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