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US brokers a compromise in Honduras crisis
30 October 2009
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (right) in the Brazilian embassy, Tegucigalpa, on 29 October. (PA)
A team of United States diplomats brokered the deal with support from the Organisation of American States (OAS). It paves the way for the reinstatement of President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military-backed constitutional coup on 28 June and is currently taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
Exact details of the accord were not immediately released, but it seemed de facto president Roberto Micheletti had agreed to allow the question of Zelaya's return to be placed before a vote in Congress, subject to a prior but non-binding opinion from the Supreme Court. A temporary power-sharing government would also be created, with both sides committed to respecting the results of scheduled 29 November presidential elections.