国际英语新闻：Ousted Honduran president Zelaya returns to Nicaragua

MANAGUA, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned on Friday to Nicaragua after staying two hours in Honduras at the border point of Las Manos.

    Zelaya, in exile since June 28, returned to Nicaragua to wait for the answer from the Honduran Staff of the Army, to whom Zelaya proposed to talk to find a solution to the political crisis in country.

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya arrives at the Honduras embassy in Managua July 23, 2009. Zelaya on Thursday began his trip home amid fears his return could start a wave of violence in the already impoverished Central American country.

After crossing the borderline to Honduras from the Nicaraguan side, Zelaya sent a message to Colonel Romero Vazquez, proposing him to meet at a border point to find a peaceful solution to the crisis.

    "I can not govern with the strong opposition from the groups of power, and they can not do it with the opposition from the people," Zelaya told a radio broadcasting live from the border zone.

    Zelaya said that he was also waiting for his family who were trying to reach the border.

    He told Telesur TV chain that "I will be here waiting for the Army to let my relative pass and also for the soldier to depose the weapons pointing against my people."

    On the same day, the supporters of the interim government in Honduras made a massive march to support post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti and reject Zelaya's return.

    The march, aimed at counteracting impact of the media's announcement of Zelaya's return to Honduras, was organized by the so called Democratic Civic Unit in San Pedro Sula, 178 km northeast to the capital of Tegucigalpa.

    Leonel Ayala, coordinator of the march, said, "With this march, what the Hondurans have done, is to tell the world that in Honduras we have had a constitutional transition."

    "We do not want the interference of a president who violated the Constitution," Ayala said, adding that "what happened in Honduras must be heard and with sobriety, in a real form."

    Honduran interim Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez said on Friday that the arrest order against Zelaya would be made valid.

    Zelaya will be detained and taken to court, Lopez said, adding that the interim government will guarantee security for him and the process will be open to international observers.

    "Zelaya has two options, to be outside (the country) or to enter and be judged," Lopez told a press conference at the Foreign Ministry building in Tegucigalpa.

    However, Zelaya was not detained in the border zone as the interim government said. He finally returned to Nicaragua.

    Lopez Friday also condemned the interference of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in Honduras' internal affairs by supporting Zelaya.

    Lopez also called on international observers to participate in the talks on the crisis in Honduras.