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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, left, waves as he stands with Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias outside Arias' residence in San Jose, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Zelaya arrived to participate in negotiations with Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti, with Arias acting as mediator. Honduras' army seized Zelaya and flew him out of the country on June 28 after the courts and Congress accused him of violating the constitution. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, who is serving as the mediator of the crisis in Honduras, indicated that ousted President Zelaya and interim President Micheletti have agreed to continue talks. “It is not viable that a conflict this deep could be solved in one meeting”, Arias stated. Arias will be scheduling more talks soon.
Both sides have agreed to solve the dispute with “words not gunpowder’, Arias said. Zelaya and Micheletti met separately on Thursday with Arias, but refused to meet with each other. Both left representatives to continue with the talks.
Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti, left, talks to Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias after a meeting in San Jose, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Talks to resolve the leadership crisis in Honduras finally got on track Thursday, with both sides showing up at the home of President Arias for closed-door meetings. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
“The truth is there is still a lot of intransigence on both side,” said OAS general secretary Jose Miguel Insulza.
Pressure is being placed on Honduras financially. The suspension of the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank loans will cost Honduras, a poor country, 200 million a year. The U.S. has cut some aid, but has not yet exerted their full diplomatic and financial muscle.
Micheletti has stated “Honduras is preparing for the worst”. He returned to Honduras and is planning to cut government budgets in preparation for the tightening of world assistance.
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