Micheletti to the OAS: "Only an invasion would slow the elections of 29 November"

President 'de facto' of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, warned Wednesday the mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) moved to the country that only an invasion could stop the presidential elections set for 29 November.Continue reading the printed article

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Unless "we invade," said Micheletti, elections will be held, "the ultimate goal," described himself as interim leader. The finding comes on the occasion of the visit of a mission of OAS foreign ministers and attempts to regain full dialogue in the Central American country to resolve the political crisis triggered by the coup of June 28.

The OAS countries have already anticipated that they will not recognize the winner of the next election if not previously restored the deposed Manuel Zelaya, who has taken refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.

Micheletti was willing to resign if that helps resolve the situation, but made it a condition that Zelaya did not return to power. "Neither you know the whole truth and want to know the whole truth," Micheletti reproached the delegation of the OAS, which began a round of dialogue from the San Jose Agreement proposed by Costa Rican President Óscar Arias.

Just in reference to the words of Arias, he called the "eyesore" the Constitution of Honduras, Micheletti said, "This eyesore has been able to maintain peace and tranquility in the country," the newspaper 'La Prensa'.

"Why not ask where are the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations they gave their countries?. Why punish a country that all we did was defend the Constitution?" The international community raised the interim leader.

Micheletti OAS and hardens against Zelaya rejects return to power

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By Isabel Sanchez

The de facto ruler of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, warned Wednesday he will leave office only if the deposed president Manuel Zelaya is not reinstated in power, maintaining its position on the immovable roundtable installed by the OAS.Continue reading the printed article

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"If I'm obstacle I reject me, but I demand that you put aside this man" Zelaya, Micheletti sentenced at a meeting with a mission of foreign ministers and Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, in the Chair.

Challenging, Micheletti said there was "no way" to stop the elections on 29 November, which refuses to recognize the international community if Zelaya, deposed by a coup on 28 June, does not return to power and are held under the de facto government.

"Just send us an attack and invade us, is the only way we are going to stop," remarked the de facto president in the session broadcast on local television throughout the country.

Also Zelaya reiterated his accusations of alleged corruption and warned that his government OAS stand politically and economically, despite their pressure, as the credit freeze.

Micheletti confrontation escalated, which had fallen before the arrival of the foreign ministers Wednesday to install a dialogue between officials of both parties, hoping to reach agreement to end the institutional crisis.

His words fell like a bucket of cold water on the table. Insulza earlier had asked them to negotiate without "hidden agendas": "We are here to make mutual recriminations or for a historical debate. We are to find concrete solutions to a situation that can not continue" he said.

In Presidency, the Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez, Micheletti said that he was deprived Honduras and the region an "appropriate trade and the benefits of tourism and international cooperation." "Reflect on the impact of this," he said.

In concluding the meeting, Insulza and immediately left the foreign ministers to meet with Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy, where he takes refuge in secret since he returned to Honduras from exile on Sept. 21.

The dialogue was installed with the San José Agreement on the table, the mediator's plan and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, which provides for restitution of Zelaya as a priority, and proposed the formation of a unity government and an amnesty.

"We insist on the need to maintain firm and unshakeable position to maneuver the de facto regime that seeks to continue in power," said the ousted president from the embassy, prior to the intervention of Micheletti.

Zelaya, who followed radio and internet installation dialogue, said he could not "negotiate principles, only the procedures on" how to comply with restitution "and asked to be reinstated by October 15 as a reasonable time for organizing the elections .

It also requested the U.S. undersecretary of state for Latin America, Thomas Shannon, who integrates the OAS mission in Tegucigalpa, to "enforce" the political position of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton.

"We want desperately to return Honduras to the OAS, and we understand their desire to use the elections for that purpose, but it is in a way that we believe should be respectful, while hopeful," Shannon said at the meeting with Micheletti.

This is the second mission of foreign ministers who drives a settlement in Tegucigalpa, having failed in August.

While the talks were at an exclusive hotel, heavily guarded by policemen and soldiers, the riot outside Zelaya repressed a demonstration near the Brazilian embassy.