TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Diplomats from across the hemisphere on Wednesday told Honduras’ interim government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Delegations from about a dozen countries met with representatives of Zelaya and the coup-installed government, including interim President Roberto Micheletti.
Micheletti scolded the diplomats for refusing to recognize what he insisted was the lawful removal of Zelaya under the Honduran constitution.
Canada’s minister of state for the Americas, Peter Kent, told Micheletti that the international community opposes the military’s ouster of Zelaya.
“However it happened, a mistake was made on June 28,” Kent told the interim president. “A democratically elected leader, whatever his behavior in recent years, was undemocratically removed.”
The diplomats took turns urging Micheletti and his ministers to reconsider their position, but no breakthroughs were announced.
