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| Zelaya wants face to face talks with Micheletti |
| 2009-09-24 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya says that he wants face-to-face talks with de facto leader Roberto Micheletti on restoring his presidency. "That's the goal, to talk personally with him -- not only with him, but also with the political and economic groups in the country," Zelaya told an AFP reporter on Wednesday from the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras. Micheletti, who succeeded Zelaya after a military coup in June, also expressed willingness to hold talks with the ousted leader, offering a glimmer of hope that the tense three-day-old stand-off that has paralyzed the capital city Tegucigalpa finds a resolution. The deposed president, along with scores of his supporters, journalists and embassy staff, was sequestered inside the Brazilian Embassy which was running short on supplies after Honduran troops cut electricity, water and telephone lines. During the day on Wednesday, power was restored and water allowed to flow again inside the embassy, but food supplies had dwindled to next-to-nothing. Zelaya thanked the world community for its support in his bid to be restored to power, and urged the United Nations not to abandon his troubled Central American nation, as the UN General Assembly got underway in New York. The Honduran leader returned secretly to the capital Tegucigalpa this week, where he hunkered down for a third day in Brazil's Embassy, and he has been trying, until now, mostly through diplomatic channels, to reclaim the presidency. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I suppose you can still talk ok while you're hanging by your heels in a dungeon. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-09-24 21:27 |
| #1 Zelaya can have the face to face during his treason trial when Micheletti testifies. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-09-24 07:38 |