New York - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Tuesday he plans to return to Honduras on Thursday so he can fulfil his four-year term in January, brushing off threats of arrest by the military in his country. Zelaya was to travel to Washington Tuesday afternoon to be present for an Organization of American States (OAS) emergency assembly meeting on the Honduran coup that ousted Zelaya.
Zelaya plans to go back to Honduras Thursday in the company of some high power international figures - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner; OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza; and UN General Assembly president Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.
"I am going to travel to Honduras on Thursday and my people will be there, the military will also be there, my enemies also," he said in response to a question whether he fears arrest in Tegucigalpa.
Zelaya claimed he never made enemies in the past three years as president.
He acknowledged that Honduras' constitution prohibits him to run for a second term. But he wants to finish his term and then go back to his ranch in the countryside and works as a farmer.
He denounced the military that overthrew him on Sunday as "barbaric" and "totally illegitimate."
