ホンジュラス関係 東京新聞とThe Japan Timesの記事です。
東京新聞
復職協議進展せず
クーデターが起きた中米ホンジュラスの首都テグシガルパで七日、大統領を解任されたセラヤ氏側と、暫定
政権側の代表団との協議が再開された。しかし、同氏の復職をめぐる対立は解けず、進展はなかったもようだ。
双方の本格的協議は、コスタリカのアリアス大統領の調停で七月に行われて以来。 (メキシコ市・共同)
The Japan Times
Interim Honduran chief offers deal to quit
Micheletti says he’s prepared to step aside
If Zelaya drops demands to be reinstated
Tegucigalpa AFP-JIJI
The de facto leader of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, said Wednesday he was prepared to leave office
three months after grabbing power, but only if deposed President Manuel Zelaya ends his demands of
being reinstated.
“If I’m an obstacle, I will step aside, but if I do, I demand this man moves to one side,”
Micheletti said.
The remarks came at meetings of diplomats from across the Americas hoping to open a fresh attempt
to resolve a political crisis triggered by the ouster of Zelaya at the end of June.
Micheletti said however that there was “no way to stop” the Nov. 29 elections, which the
international community has warned it will not recognize if held under the current government.
Talks led by Organization of American States chief Jose Insulza got under way after midday with a
delegation of five foreign ministers, three deputy foreign ministers and the U.S. deputy secretary
of state for Western hemisphere affairs, Thomas Shannon.
“We are not here to make mutual recriminations. We are here to look for specific solution that
cannot go on any longer,” said Insulza.
Police meanwhile launched tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters outside the Brazilian Embassy,
where Zelaya has been holed up with supporters since returning to the country by surprise last month.
Elsewhere in the capital, army troops and police special operations officers were heavily deployed
in a bristling show of force as the talks began in a Tegucigalpa hotel.
Zelaya’s representatives at the talks are insisting he be restored to power unconditionally by
Oct. 15.
Reinstating him any later, they said, risked causing a delay in the late November presidential
and legislative elections.
“Our principles are not negotiable,” Zelaya said on Canal 11 television. “What we can negotiate
on are the steps that have to be taken to put in place the principles, like carrying out the
reinstatement of the president.”
Embassy priest Andres Tamayo, said that they were “not optimistic” but added that they insisted
n maintaining an “unshakable position” to push against the de facto regime seeking to stay in power.”
Envoys for the de facto government led by interim leader Micheletti back a plan to hold elections
before allowing any reinstatement of the deposed president. That position has led by Zelaya to charge
that the de facto regime “is planning to prolong its hold on power, deepening the crisis.”
The negotiators had said they also planned to meet with Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy and with
Micheletti at his presidential office. The pair are not expected to meet face to face.
Zelaya, forced out of the country at gunpoint on June 28 while still in his pajamas, surreptitiously
returned to the Honduran capital on Sept. 21, almost three months after the army-backed coup.
Micheletti and other Zelaya foes charge that the elected president overstepped his authority by
seeking changes in the constitution that would allow him to run for a second term.
Once in office, Zelaya, a Stetson-wearing rancher, veered to the left and allied himself with
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, alienating business interests and some army officers.
“My government is convening a round table in a new spirit to address issues that have been under
consideration as part of documents of the San Jose Dialogue” mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar
Arias, Micheletti said.
But Zelaya, whose mandate as president had been set to end on Jan. 27, 2010, said he could place no
trust in a dialogue with the interim leadership.
