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US urges Honduran unity government

November 07, 2009, 06:37 AM Post Comments
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The United States says it is disappointed that Honduras has failed to form a unity government.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Friday that the United States wants Honduran politicians to immediately reach agreement on a unity government meant to end a four-month political crisis.

Kelly says "it is urgent that this government be created immediately."

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end the crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.

The pact gave the two sides until midnight Thursday to install a government with supporters of Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, who was named interim president by Congress after Zelaya was ousted on June 28.

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