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23 de setembro de 2009Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is taking shelter at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras amid an effort to initiate political dialogue in that country, Brazil’s Foreign Relations Ministry confirmed Monday.
The ministry didn’t immediately release a statement on the matter. Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Celso Amorim, however, later said he had been in contact with Zelaya.
“I spoke personally with him and welcomed him to Brazilian territory,” Amorim said during a visit to the Brazilian mission of the U.N. in New York, according to the Estado news agency.
Amorim said that Brazil’s government had no involvement with Zelaya’s arrival at the embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. He called Zelaya Honduras’ legitimate president, however, and said that Brazil would intercede with the Organization of American States to assure Zelaya’s safety and right to hold peaceful dialogue while in Honduras.
“If the OAS is not for guaranteeing a democratic government, what’s it for?” Amorim questioned.
Amorim confirmed reports of protests outside Brazil’s embassy in Honduras on Monday by groups in favor of the government that ousted Zelaya.
The information regarding Zelaya’s presence at the Brazilian embassy was reported to the press earlier in the day by Zelaya’s wife, Xiomara Castro.
Zelaya was sent into exile abroad by Honduran military officials on June 28 following disagreements with members of the country’s national assembly and judicial branch over his government’s plans for a referendum on eliminating presidential term limits.
Brazil, alongside many other countries, broke diplomatic relations with the government of Honduras following Zelaya’s expulsion from the country.
