Chief mediator Oscar Arias asked for a 72-hour extension and warned of civil war after talks broke down Sunday.
By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the July 20, 2009 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0720/p06s03-woam.html
Negotiations stalled
Talks with Mr. Arias broke down Sunday over a key stipulation: that Zelaya be returned to power until his term ends in January.
The seven-point proposal, presented to both sides over the weekend, would have formed a national unity government including representatives from all political parties. Elections, scheduled for November, would have been moved up by a month. Zelaya would also have to affirm his intentions not to alter the Constitution – the trigger of his ouster, after the nation's institutions and many others believed he was trying to scrap term limits for presidents.
But Honduras's interim government, led by Roberto Micheletti, called the plan "unacceptable."
"It was not possible to reach a satisfactory agreement. The Zelaya delegation fully accepted my proposal, but not that of Don Roberto Micheletti," Arias said on Sunday.
THE CONFLICT MONITOR: It appears that the coup in the Honduras has adopted the "who is more criminal" attitude which in constitutional and moral grounds is a debate set for a failure. An extra push is needed for balancing further the power towards president Zelaya. It becomes evident that this is an isolationist coup, one that may drive the Honduras to an oblivion diplomatically for decades to come.
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