Manuel Zelaya, the former president of Honduras, will be allowed to freely return to his homeland, current President Porfirio Lobo said on Friday.
Zelaya was ousted as president in a coup on June 28, 2009, over efforts to seek an unconstitutional second presidential term. He returned to the country on September 21 and took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy.
"President Zelaya can return to Honduras when he wishes to and he will be treated with consideration befitting a former president," Lobo said, according to Tiempo newspaper, a Columbian daily.
He added that Zelaya would not face political persecution.
MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
