Zelaya can't return - govt
2009-07-05 16:22
Tegucigalpa -The deposed Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, will not be allowed to land in the country if he attempts to fly back a week after he was ousted by troops, the interim government said on Sunday.
Asked what the government would do if Zelaya attempted to return, the caretaker government's foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, said: “I’ve ordered that he not be allowed back in, come what may.
"We cannot allow recklessness, that a president of the republic dies, that a president of the republic is wounded, that anyone dies.
Zelaya was forced out at gunpoint and exiled to Costa Rica a week ago.
He said Washington, however, that he would try to return to the Central American country on Sunday, perhaps accompanied by a group of left-wing presidents.
- Reuters