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Top envoy in Honduras for talks Honduran court defiant on Zelaya
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A top Latin American diplomat has arrived in Honduras to demand the restoration of the ousted president. The Supreme Court of Honduras has rejected a demand by the Organization of American States to reinstate the ousted President, Manuel Zelaya.
Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, says he will do all he can to end the impasse in the Central American state. OAS chief Miguel Insulza was told that the court's position was "irreversible" when he met its president for two hours in the capital Tegulcigalpa.
But he earlier acknowledged that it would be difficult to persuade the interim government to take back ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Mr Insulza, who arrived in Honduras on a mission to have Mr Zelaya reinstated, left the meeting without comment.
Mr Zelaya was removed from office on Sunday over constitutional reform. Troops forced President Zelaya out of the country on Sunday.
He wanted to hold a referendum that could have removed the current one-term limit on serving as president, paving the way for his possible re-election. No coup took place here Roberto Micheletti head of interim government
The interim government formed after his removal says Mr Zelaya's attempts to change the Honduran constitution, and possibly extend his power, justified the army's actions.
It can now expect expulsion from the OAS, diplomatic isolation and likely international sanctions, the BBC's Stephen Gibbs reports from Tegulcigalpa.
Mr Zelaya is expected to return from exile to the country on Sunday, accompanied by OAS officials and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.
The new Honduran government says he will be arrested.
'Despotic ambitions'
Before arriving in the Central American state, Mr Insulza said he would meet the heads of the institutions that approved Mr Zelaya's removal and ask them to review their actions.
Miguel Insulza says he faces a difficult task in the Central American state
"We are not going to Honduras to negotiate," he said.
He acknowledged that it would be difficult to persuade the interim government to take back Mr Zelaya.
Mr Zelaya wanted to hold a referendum that could have removed the current one-term limit on serving as president, paving the way for his possible re-election.
Instead troops - backed by Congress and the courts - took him from the presidential palace and put him on a plane to Costa Rica.Instead troops - backed by Congress and the courts - took him from the presidential palace and put him on a plane to Costa Rica.
The OAS says it will suspend Honduras if Mr Zelaya is not reinstated by Saturday. The new leadership enjoys the support of a substantial proportion of the population and says it stands for democracy, our correspondent reports.
Mr Zelaya himself says he remains the country's democratically elected leader and he plans to return. It suggests that Mr Zelaya had despotic ambitions, and therefore the extreme action of removing him from power was justified.
His removal has drawn widespread international criticism, but the interim government says it is standing firm and Mr Zelaya will be arrested if he returns to Honduras. But governments around the world disagree, and believe that a clear message should be sent to Honduras that using the army to depose a president is not acceptable, our correspondent says.
'No coup' Saturday deadline
Before arriving in Honduras, Mr Insulza said he would meet the heads of the institutions that approved Mr Zelaya's removal and ask them to review their actions. The OAS has said it will suspend Honduras if Mr Zelaya is not reinstated by Saturday.
"We are not going to Honduras to negotiate. We are going to Honduras to ask them to change what they have been doing," he said. Mr Zelaya himself insists that he remains the country's democratically elected leader.
Supporters of President Zelaya have held protests in Honduras The interim government - led by Roberto Micheletti, previously the speaker of Congress - says it may bring elections forward from their scheduled date of 29 November.
But he said that it would be "very hard to turn things around in a couple of days". On Friday, Mr Micheletti told thousands of supporters at a rally in Tegucigalpa that he was "the president of all Hondurans".
The interim government - led by Roberto Micheletti, previously the speaker of Congress - says it could bring elections forward from their scheduled date of 29 November. "We are asking Hondurans to communicate with their relatives throughout the world to tell them that no coup took place here," he said.
But on Friday Mr Micheletti told thousands of supporters at a rally in Tegucigalpa that he was "the president of all Hondurans".
"We are asking Hondurans to communicate with their relatives throughout the world to tell them that no coup took place here."
Thousands of Zelaya supporters demonstrated at a separate rally across town.Thousands of Zelaya supporters demonstrated at a separate rally across town.
The BBC's Stephen Gibbs in Tegucigalpa says the country is becoming dangerously polarised and a solution or compromise seems a long way off.