Agreement in sight: Honduras' Zelaya tells supporters
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Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya assured his supporters on Sunday that an agreement would soon be reached on settling the country's political crisis.
"I cannot give details of how this will be achieved, but Honduras cannot remain in this situation," Zelaya told the local broadcasting station Radio Globo.
Negotiators representing Zelaya and the post-coup government on Friday ended talks that lasted more than two weeks.
On Friday, Mayra Mejia, who represented Zelaya at the talks, told media that her team considered the process of negotiation exhausting. The talks had been going on since Oct. 7, when a group of foreign ministers and senior officials from the Organization of American States visited Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa.
Zelaya has insisted on returning to office before Nov. 29, when general elections are due in which he cannot stand. The de facto government, led by former legislature speaker Roberto Micheletti, has said that elections must go ahead, but Zelaya insists that any such poll would be illegitimate if he was not restored to power.
The United States, Honduras' top trade partner and source of foreign aid, has refrained from declaring a clear cut position on the issue, causing the region's politicians to accuse it of giving tacit backing for Honduras' coup.
The Micheletti government has not received recognition from any nation or international body.
In a coup on June 28, Zelaya was kidnapped at home, forced onto a military aircraft and flown to Costa Rica. He returned to Tegucigalpa at the end of September surreptitiously, and has been hiding in the Brazilian embassy since.
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