国际英语新闻：Mediator: Zelaya's conditional return as solution to Honduras' crisis

SAN JOSE, July 22 (Xinhua) -- A possible agreement between deposed Honduran president and the interim government might be reached in Costa Rica to allow Manuel Zelaya's return home after weeks in exile.

    Sources with the mediator Costa Rican government told reporters on Wednesday that both camps are to send delegations back to negotiation table for a new round of talk in San Jose.

    Costa Rican president and chief mediator on Honduras' crisis Oscar Arias said he will announce a "Declaration of San Jose" later on Wednesday.

    The source who asked to be anonymous said both camps agreed to meet here again for a new round of talks and this time an agreement to end the turbulence is likely to finally come out.

Representatives for deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Enrique Flores (L), Milton Jimenez (C), Aristides Mejia (R) and Mauricio Villeda (L behind) and the delegate for Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti, Carlos Lopez (R behind), listen as Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, speaks to the media in San Jose July 19, 2009.

    Although Carlos Lopez, Honduran interim government's Foreign Minister, on Wednesday discarded Zelaya's return to be an issue for discussion, he confirmed as delegation leader their return to San Jose for a third round of talks.

    Lopez said in a press conference that the post-coup administration would not give in to pressure coming from outside yet they welcome a new proposal from Arias, the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize-winning mediator.

    He said the de facto government had offered a new compromise for the mediation to continue, which as believed is to be added into Arias' modified proposal for reconciliation.

    However, no more details were given on such compromise.

    In the previous two rounds of mediation talks, both sides weren't able to reach any agreement and the main difference consists in Zelaya's return to office.

    The Honduran president in exile was expulsed and deposed by militaries on June 28, in a worldwidely condemned coup d'etat.