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EXTRA: Ousted Zelaya vows to return to Honduras

by : DPA

Date : Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:53:37 GMT





Washington - Ousted Honduran president Jose Manuel Zelaya vowed to return to Tegucigalpa Sunday, following the resolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) to suspend the country from the hemispheric bloc over the coup a week ago. "I will go to the country because it needs for peace to return, " Zelaya said at the OAS headquarters in Washington after the vote.

Earlier reports said Zelaya would be accompanied by OAS secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

But Insulza acknowledged potential risks of confrontation, and the Canadian delegation to the OAS urged against Zelaya 's return now.

"There are risks, it is risky, the risk of being arrested and the risk of clashes, " Insulza said. "It is not a secure return. "

Zelaya was ousted in a coup by soldiers acting on orders from the country 's Supreme Court, ostensibly to prevent him from attempting to change the constitution to allow him a second presidential term.



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