Top UN official says any attack on Brazilian embassy in Honduras would be ‘disaster’

October 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Honduras coup leader Roberto Micheletti should step down immediately in return for an amnesty, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday. "For us, the solution will be easy if those that participated in the coup leave power and allow the legitimately elected president to take power," Lula told journalists at a summit with European Union leaders in Stockholm.

October 2nd, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Brazilian legislators visiting Honduras have said ousted president Manuel Zelaya has promised to adopt a more moderate tone in talking to his supporters from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. A representative of the Organisation of American States (OAS) meanwhile said both Zelaya and the de facto government headed by Roberto Micheletti had expressed willingness to open a dialogue to end the crisis sparked by Zelaya's return Sep 21.

September 30th, 2009 Honduras sets 10-day deadline on embassy standoffTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras is giving Brazil 10 days to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who has been inside the Brazilian Embassy since sneaking back into the country last week. The government in charge since a June 28 coup that deposed Zelaya says it will take unspecified "additional measures" if Brazil does not define his status.

September 30th, 2009 Ousted Honduran leader addresses UN via cell phoneUNITED NATIONS — Honduras' ousted president addressed the United Nations General Assembly by cellular phone late Monday from the Brazilian embassy in his country where he is holed up, calling on the world body to guarantee his personal safety and turn back the "dictatorship" that has taken power. "Those who still harbored any doubt that a dictatorship has been installed here can lay those doubts to rest," Manuel Zelaya said via a telephone brought to the General Assembly podium by his foreign minister, Patricia Rodas.

September 28th, 2009 PORLAMAR - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva here said that it "does not accept ultimatums from a coup-making government". He was talking about the 10 days ultimatum given by the present Honduran government for clearing the status of expelled Honduran president Mel Zelaya who is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.

September 25th, 2009 UN decries harassment of Brazil's Honduran embassyUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned "acts of intimidation" against the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where that country's ousted president is holed up, but said nothing about restoring him to power.

September 25th, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Friday gas shells and non-lethal noise bombs were thrown into the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has taken refuge, but Honduras' de facto government denied that the embassy had been attacked. Zelaya said the air felt heavy and strange, and people in the building had become sick, with one aide vomiting blood.

September 24th, 2009 MADRID/TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya has said he fears for his life, Spanish media reported Thursday. In a telephone interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo, Zelaya said the US and the Organisation of American States (OAS) had helped to foil one plan to kill him and to make it look like suicide.

September 23rd, 2009 Brazil hopes for negotiations in HondurasNEW YORK — Brazil's president said Wednesday he hoped deposed President Manuel Zelaya's surprise return to Honduras would deter coup plotters and force an eventual restoration of democracy in the Central American nation. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for patience with regard to the stand off that has Zelaya holed up inside the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, and disputed the notion the Honduran had been asked by Brazil to refrain from politics.

September 22nd, 2009 Brazil asks UN for emergency meeting on HondurasBRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's government has asked the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over a standoff in Honduras with the nation's deposed president taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy. The official Agencia Brasil news agency says Brazil's U.N.

September 22nd, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The de facto Honduran government imposed a nationwide curfew following the return of ousted President Mel Zelaya. The government's decision was televised while hundreds of Zelaya's supporters gathered outside the Brazilian Embassy where he is staying since Monday.

September 21st, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned Monday to the Central American country and had taken refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Earlier, the de facto government had denied his presence amid conflicting reports as to his precise whereabouts.

September 3rd, 2009 Gov't Officials: US to cut aid to HondurasWASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the Obama administration is cutting all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.

June 30th, 2009 US warns citizens to avoid travel to HondurasWASHINGTON — The State Department on Monday warned U.S. citizens to avoid all nonessential travel to Honduras due to the "current unstable political and security situation" there.

April 23rd, 2009 Official: Negotiate end to Brazil custody battleBRASILIA, Brazil — A Brazilian official says there should be a negotiated end to a custody battle between a U.S. father and a Brazilian stepfather over a boy.