Honduras president-elect to meet with ousted Zelaya

Fri, 11 Dec 2009

Santo Domingo - Porfirio Lobo, the president-elect of Honduras, plans to meet next week with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in Santo Domingo to begin a "political dialogue," the Dominican President Leonel Fernandez said Friday. Zelaya was ousted on June 28 and expelled from Honduras in a military coup. He slipped back into the country on September 21, taking refuge since then in the Brazilian embassy.

Lobo was elected on November 29 in elections that had been planned before the coup.

Honduras' de-facto government earlier this week rejected a request by Zelaya to leave the country with his family for Mexico.

Mexico's government, which has requested safe conduct for Zelaya in Honduras, has offered political asylum to the ousted president. A plane sent to pick up Zelaya was redirected to El Salvador after the Honduran government nixed his travel plans.