Brazil will not recognize as legitimate a new Honduran government to emerge in the upcoming elections in Honduras this weekend, minister of External Relations Celso Amorim said Thursday.
Amorim said that the results of the elections would not be recognized if deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was not restituted to his presidency.
Neither the de facto leader Roberto Micheletti nor Zelaya are running for president.
Earlier in the day, the Brazilian foreign minister had over-one-hour talks over phone with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Honduras was one of the topics of the conversation. But divergence remained between the two sides.
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner have both voiced their rejection of the elections in
Honduras.
This was a common position of much of Latin America and the Caribbean region, according to the Brazilian president.
However, Washington has expressed its position to recognize the winner of the Honduran elections.
Amorim was here to attend the summit between the Amazon basin countries and France on climate change.