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EXCLUSIVE-Zelaya to try to return if Honduras talks fail: wife

TEGUCIGALPA
Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:43pm EDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Deposed President Manuel Zelaya will seek to openly return to Honduras if mediation talks on Saturday fail to reinstate him, his wife said on Friday.

"Time runs out tomorrow," Xiomara Castro de Zelaya told Reuters in an interview in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on the eve of the talks in Costa Rica. "He has to come back to the country. He has to come publicly."

She gave no clear indication of timing, but added he would not negotiate on his central demand to be reinstated to serve out his term. He was toppled in a June 28 coup.

(Reporting by Simon Gardner and Esteban Israel; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)


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