TELESUR: “There is no negotiation" : Zelaya
Posted by: "Diana Barahona" dlbarahona@charter.net dlbarahona
Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:09 pm (PDT)
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⒠There is no negotiation and on that point we have been clear⒠
Telesur July 13, 2009
During a press conference in Managua on Monday, President Manuel Zelaya gave an ultimatum to the authorities who took power in a coup, to restore institutionality in Honduras by the next meeting of the mediation, or else ⒠the mediation will fail and we will proceed to carry out other measures.⒠
Zelaya said that it is hoped that the next meeting in Costa Rica will be held sometime this week.
In his communique Zelaya said that the de facto government is only trying to buy time in order to carry out elections under the current regime. He added that his government considers offensive the attempt by the regime to draw out the mediation process, whose only objective should be to comply with the resolutions of the OAS and the UN, which rejected the coup and demand his restoration to power. At the same time, he denounced the repression and persecution against the Honduran people, representatives of his government and foreign journalists.
He said that in the face of these ⒠criminal⒠ actions his government denounces before the international community that ⒠the only objective of this dictatorship is to use Òscar Arias.⒠ Zelaya said that his government will remain at the mediation table only under the premise that through the mediator (Arias) his restoration is guaranteed.
Upon answering the questions of journalists Zelaya clarified once again that at this dialogue table ⒠there is no negotiation and on that point we have been clear. There cannot be a president who has not been elected by the people; the rest is a farse.⒠ He said that ⒠after the resolutions taken by the OAS and the UN, the dialogue table will have as its objective to guarantee that those resolutions are complied with. There will be no dialogue that is not based on those articles.⒠
He also brought up the expulsion on Sunday of journalists from TeleSUR and Venezolana de Televisión, who were in Tegucigalpa transmitting the repression that the country is living through from the coup government, and said , ⒠the small and independent media were repressed. In Honduras there is a media blockade.⒠
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SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2009
Zelaya will accept no compromise: Néstor Núñez
Honduras: Fundamental moments
by Néstor Núñez (Argenpress)
July 8, 2009
The arrangement for negotiations beginning this Thursday in Costa Rica between the deposed constitutional president, José Manuel Zelaya, and the putschists that illegally usurped the national government evidences different views of the bloody conflict.
The proposal for dialogue arose in Washington from the encounter between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Zelaya himself, even though it turns out to be symptomatic that when finalizing the interview, each one offered separate statements to the press.
As a matter of fact, Clinton pushed for the idea of a negotiation under the formal auspices of Costa Rica where, she insisted, "the parties should exchange impressions on many issues and arrive at a mutual agreement" in order to put an end to the explosive internal situation in the most impoverished Central American country.
That version suggests a certain equality of rights and representation between rivals for power who, together, should arrive at "balanced" conclusions.
One should not doubt, of course, that at this time some in the empire are betting on the return of a bound-up Zelaya as the least worst choice and better than a mob that, it is evident, has no future before the Honduran people nor before the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, Zelaya was clear and precise when he said in his statements in Washington that he will attend the dialogue to demand the end of the de facto regime of the putschists and the return to Honduras of the rule of law and constitutional norms that were violated on June 28 by the military and the oligarchy.
There will be no betrayal of the people who struggle and fall in the streets, said the president, whose restoration without conditions is demanded by the Honduras's popular classes and all of the governments on the planet.
So the coming hours may be fundamental for Honduras. The permanent resistance of the people of that nation, admirable for their courage, organization and impetus, will continue being decisive in the achievement of a victory without fissures or compromises, just like the erectness demonstrated by their maximum and legitimate representative, together with an active and permanent global solidarity.
These premises will be vital to twist the hand of those who caress plans of a bound and tutelary president beneath the masked rhetoric and good-natured faces.
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