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US officials to visit to Honduras to push for deal

Oct 26, 2009
 
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WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Senior U.S. officials will travel to Honduras this week to press ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the country's post-coup de facto leaders to break a stalemate in a four-month-old political crisis. In a sign that the United States was growing increasingly impatient with the repeated breakdown of talks between Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also spoke with both men by telephone on Friday evening to urge them to make compromises. "The secretary discussed with each of them strategies to move the ... process forward. She urged them both to show flexibility and redouble their efforts to bring this crisis to an end," Virginia Staab, a State Department spokeswoman, said on Monday. Staab said at least one senior administration official would go to... [read full story]                    

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