MANUEL ZELAYA IN NICARAGUA
Cuban News Agency

HAVANA, Cuba, June 29 (acn) -- Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya was received on Sunday night at Managua’s Airport by presidents of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), headed by the Nicaraguan head of state, Daniel Ortega.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, along with the people of Nicaragua, welcomed Zelaya at the Augusto César Sandino International Airport, according to a report aired by Telesur television network.

On Sunday night, Zelaya was accompanied by Costa Rican authorities to San José’s airport, from where he left for Nicaragua, the venue of the Summit of the Central American Integration System (SICA).

The SICA Summit has been scheduled for Monday and will have, as its main objective, the discussion of the crisis underway in Honduras as a consequence of the coup d’etat against Zelaya, kidnapped in the early hours of Sunday by Army forces and sent to Costa Rica.

I will return to Honduras to occupy my post as president, said Zelaya during a press conference in San José before his arrival to Nicaragua to participate in a meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), made up by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda and Ecuador.

Meanwhile, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega received on Sunday in Managua the presidents and representatives of governments that came to his country to participate in the extraordinary meeting of ALBA, aimed at supporting Zelaya and contributing to reinstate him in the post he was stripped off by the Honduran oligarchy and military.

In telephone statements to Telesur from Managua’s airport, Ortega denounced the disappearance of Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and of other popular leaders of that sister nation.