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Honduran President Received with Honors in Guatemala
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 14 (acn) Honduran constitutional president José Manuel Zelaya was received on Tuesday in Guatemala by his counterpart Alvaro Colom with the honors befitting his rank.
After his arrival from Nicaragua, Mel(as he’s known in Honduras) thanked Colom for the warm reception and for his support of democracy, after which he affirmed that he will return to occupy the post he was forcibly ousted from by a coup d´etat on June 28th.
Zelaya said he had arrived “to a country whose president is his friend, a democratic leader who knows how to defend democracy, and that Guatemala has shown, throughout history, that it’s against military uprisings”, the ANSA news agency reports.
During a previous official ceremony, Colom assured that he will not recognize the de facto Honduran government, because “it would create a powder keg that threatens all democracies in the continent”.
At the end of the welcoming ceremony, Zelaya went to the Presidential House, located in the center of the Guatemalan capital, to meet with Colom in private.
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Reciben con honores a Zelaya en Guatemala
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