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| Dominican prez says Honduran meeting delayed |
| 2009-12-14 |
| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- A planned meeting between the ousted and incoming leaders of Honduras to solve that nation's political crisis has been delayed, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez said Sunday. Fernandez previously said he expected the ousted President Manuel Zelaya and President-elect Porfirio Lobo to meet in the Caribbean nation's capital on Monday - implying that Zelaya would be able to leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where he has taken refuge for nearly three months. But Fernandez issued a statement on Sunday saying the interim Honduran government has not granted Zelaya safe passage out of Honduras without being arrested on charges of treason and abuse of authority for repeatedly ignoring court orders to drop plans for a referendum on rewriting the constitution. "The conversation ... will have to be postponed until the de facto government creates the conditions for President Zelaya to leave and sustain this dialogue, as is his desire," Fernandez's office said in an official statement. The statement says the interim government would only allow Zelaya to leave the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken shelter in Tegucigalpa, as a "political refugee." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 ION TOPIX > {Uncle Fidel = CUBA/QUBA]CASTRO SAYS US ON THE OFFENSIVE IN LATIN AMERICA DESPITE OBAMA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-14 20:25 |