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Tuesday June 30, 2009 | Share

Zelaya: 'I'm going to Honduras on Thursday. I expect the people '

The president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya , announced Tuesday he will return to Tegucigalpa on Thursday to fulfill his presidential term, which ends on January 27, 2010.

"I'm going to Tegucigalpa on Thursday. I expect the people I wait for the Army and those who want to sacrifice this system "in Honduras, said the deposed President of Honduras during the Summit of Heads of State and Government of SICA in Managua.

The rulers of this integration mechanism are urgently met in Nicaragua to support the Honduran president, who after being arrested and expelled the country by the military, was dismissed by the Parliament of his country, he appointed in his place Roberto Micheletti.

Zelaya said he will return to Tegucigalpa from Washington, where he will leave on Wednesday to attend a Security Council meeting of the UN in New York, and one of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the U.S. capital.

The deposed president of Honduras, which received overwhelming support in Managua of the Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), SICA and the Rio Group, said his country will return accompanied by the secretary general of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has also dedicated harsh words to the situation in Honduras.

Insulza, who is also in Managua, Zelaya offered his company to return to Tegucigalpa. "I'll ask you to accompany me. You have given me and accept his offer, "Zelaya said Insulza. Ousted Honduran president invited the presidents who wish to accompany him on his return to Tegucigalpa, where he warned, "there is a coup."

Objective: To carry out the

"I was expelled from the force on Sunday and going back voluntarily to the protection of the Blood of Christ, God and the people," said Zelaya, who started the applause of the Heads of State and Government of the Western Hemisphere present in Managua.

Zelaya said that his country will fulfill its mandate of four years for the democratically elected president of Honduras.

"Be you agree estimates factual groups, oligarchic groups, the media who make war so that people do not become" he said.

"Are you or do not agree, the Honduran president returns to his homeland to fulfill his presidential term," he added.

He said that on his return to Honduras invited to "some friends" to integrate a "commission to go return to dialogue" as Zelaya was defined as a man who all his life preached nonviolence.

During his speech, the loudest applause in the convention hall, Zelaya confirmed it had received a call from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and said his government withdrew its ambassador from Honduras as a backup.

The meeting in Managua

Insulza reiterated the OAS will only recognize as president of Honduras Zelaya and condemned the "coup" perpetrated by the "illegitimate government" that was established in Tegucigalpa.

Concentrated in Managua Presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia), Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), Raul Castro (Cuba), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Mauricio Funes (El Salvador) and Alvaro Colom (Guatemala).

Also Felipe Calderon (Mexico), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), Martin Torrijos (Panama), Leonel Fernández (Dominican Republic) and Hugo Chavez (Venezuela).

They have also attended meetings of prime ministers Baldwin Spencer (Antigua and Barbuda), Dean Barrow (Belize) and Ralph Gonsalves (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).

In addition, representatives of the Rio Group members are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru , Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Tegucigalpa Monday morning with "tense calm" , but as the day progressed have been growing protests .

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