Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on Saturday warned against the use of violence in settling the political dispute in Honduras in the wake of last month's coup, according to dpa. Arias is holding a second round of negotiations to settle the conflict. Representatives of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, who was designated to head the government after the June 28 coup, are meeting at Arias' home in Costa Rica. Arias called for the reinstallation of Zelaya, after having earlier said a national reconciliation government could be an option. "The reinstatement of constitutional order in Honduras can only occur through the reinstatement of President Jose Manuel Zelaya," Arias said. Micheletti, a former Honduran Congress speaker, told Colombian radio from Tegucigalpa on Friday that he was willing to leave the presidency if Zelaya stops behaving arbitrarily. "He is calling for a national insurrection," Micheletti charged. "He is calling for a bloodbath." He said his post-coup government is willing to study alternatives in the framework of Arias' mediation efforts, including holding elections earlier than those scheduled for November 29. Micheletti repeated his insistence that Zelaya not return to power as a condition for his stepping down. But Zelaya has full backing of Arias and the Organization of American States (OAS) as the rightful president. The OAS has suspended Honduras for its illegal ouster of Zelaya, who was sent into exile in his pajamas several weeks ago. He warned Friday that the talks were the last chance to find a solution to the conflict and said he would resort to "other means" if talks failed. On Tuesday, Zelaya called for his supporters to rise up against the regime that took over after his ouster by the Honduran military. Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his mediating role in Central America. Positions at the start of the talks seemed to be about as far apart as they were last week, when Zelaya and Micheletti met separately with Arias at his private home in the outskirts of San Jose.
