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Top envoy in Honduras for talks | Top envoy in Honduras for talks |
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A top Latin American diplomat has arrived in Honduras to demand the restoration of the ousted president. | A top Latin American diplomat has arrived in Honduras to demand the restoration of the ousted president. |
Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, says he will do all he can to end the impasse in the Central American state. | Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, says he will do all he can to end the impasse in the Central American state. |
But he earlier acknowledged that it would be difficult to persuade the interim government to take back ousted President Manuel Zelaya. | But he earlier acknowledged that it would be difficult to persuade the interim government to take back ousted President Manuel Zelaya. |
Mr Zelaya was removed from office on Sunday over constitutional reform. | Mr Zelaya was removed from office on Sunday over constitutional reform. |
He wanted to hold a referendum that could have led to an extension of his non-renewable four-year term. | He wanted to hold a referendum that could have led to an extension of his non-renewable four-year term. |
Instead troops - backed by Congress and the courts - took him from the presidential palace and put him on a plane to Costa Rica. | Instead troops - backed by Congress and the courts - took him from the presidential palace and put him on a plane to Costa Rica. |
The move has drawn widespread international criticism, but the interim government says it is standing firm and says Mr Zelaya will be arrested if he returns to Honduras. | The move has drawn widespread international criticism, but the interim government says it is standing firm and says Mr Zelaya will be arrested if he returns to Honduras. |
'No coup' | |
Before arriving in Honduras, Mr Insulza said he would meet the heads of the institutions that approved Mr Zelaya's removal and ask them to review their actions. | |
"We are not going to Honduras to negotiate. We are going to Honduras to ask them to change what they have been doing," he said. | |
But he said that it would be "very hard to turn things around in a couple of days". | |
The interim government - led by Roberto Micheletti, previously the speaker of Congress - says it could bring elections forward from their scheduled date of 29 November. | |
But on Friday Mr Micheletti told thousands of supporters at a rally in Tegucigalpa that he was "the president of all Hondurans". | |
"We are asking Hondurans to communicate with their relatives throughout the world to tell them that no coup took place here." | |
Thousands of Zelaya supporters demonstrated at a separate rally across town. | |
The BBC's Stephen Gibbs, who is in Tegucigalpa, says the country is becoming dangerously polarised and a solution or compromise seems a long way off. | |
The OAS says it will suspend Honduras if Mr Zelaya is not reinstated by Saturday. Mr Zelaya himself says he remains the country's democratically elected leader. |