Hand back power, Lula tells Honduras coup leaders
October 6th, 2009 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANSStockholm, Oct 6 (DPA) Honduras coup leader Roberto Micheletti should step down immediately in return for an amnesty, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday.
“For us, the solution will be easy if those that participated in the coup leave power and allow the legitimately elected president to take power,” Lula told journalists at a summit with European Union leaders in Stockholm.
If Micheletti “leaves and allows (ousted President Manuel) Zelaya to call elections, there will be an amnesty, because we want Honduras to live well,” he said.
Micheletti took power in a coup June 28.
Zelaya is currently in hiding in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, while Micheletti’s regime is coming under increasing international pressure with the impending arrival of a high-level mission from the Organization of American States.
But Lula stressed that Honduras could solve the problem instantly if the coup leaders returned Zelaya to power.
“There is only one thing wrong in Honduras, there’s someone in the presidency that shouldn’t be there,” he said.
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