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Deposed Honduran President Drops Deal in Letter to Obama

TEGUCIGALPA – Deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya said in a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama that he no longer accepted “any agreement” for his reinstatement in power.

“From this date forward, whatever had been the case, I do not accept any agreement for returning to the presidency,” Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 coup, said in the letter to Obama.

Copies of the letter were distributed to the press by his supporters.

Accepting the agreement would be “covering up the coup d’état, which we know has a direct impact due to the military repression on the human rights of the inhabitants of our country,” Zelaya said.

“The Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord is without value or effect through the unilateral noncompliance of the de facto government” headed by Roberto Micheletti, who was appointed to lead the country by the Honduran Congress on June 28 after the coup, Zelaya said.

The pact was signed Oct. 29 by dialogue committees representing Micheletti and Zelaya and – among other things – established that the Congress must decide whether or not to reinstate the deposed president and that a unity government of national reconciliation would be formed.

The Honduran Congress announced that it will debate the matter once it receives the opinions it requested from the Supreme Court and other state entities.

Zelaya also reiterated his questioning of what he calls the change in attitude the United States displayed after the signing of the accord in that Washington began supporting the elections to be held in Honduras on Nov. 29 although previously it had warned that it would not recognize them.

“The same day that the accord’s Verification Commission was set up in Tegucigalpa the statements by officials from the State Department surprised (everyone) where they modify their position and interpret the accord unilaterally with the following statement: ‘the elections should be recognized by the United States with or without the reinstatement’” of Zelaya, the ousted leader said in the letter.

Zelaya has been staying at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa since Sept. 21 after he snuck back into Honduras with an eye toward recovering the presidency.
 
 

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