SAN JOSE, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias as designated mediator of Honduras' on-going crisis has new proposals to declare on Wednesday after a 72-hour term set to find peaceful end to the turbulence started on June 28.
The Costa Rican presidency said in a communique on Wednesday that the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Arias has prepared a "Declaration of San Jose" for both camps in conflict and vows to continue his mediating effort.
It was confirmed by the post-coup government's Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez in Honduras who said he is "waiting for a new proposal" from Arias.
Lopez, also interim government's talk delegation leader, said on Wednesday that the mediation aimed to find a solution to the crisis in the country has been postponed.
Arias' previous proposals including the reinstatement of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya, a unity government, earlier elections and general amnesty were declared "unacceptable" by the interim government led by ex Congress leader Roberto Micheletti.
In the second talk round concluded on Sunday, no agreement was reached between both delegations and the main difference remains Zelaya's return to power.
The deposed Honduran president for his part had called his supporters for an insurrection and reiterated in various occasions that he would return to his country despite all cost.
His delegation spokeswoman, Rixi Moncada, said right after the failed talk round that Zelaya would not again come back to the negotiation table with Micheletti's government, but "new representatives."
Arias, lamenting the risk of a civil war Honduras is facing, said he would spend 72 hours trying to convince the coup leaders to accept his seven proposals, a term to expire within next few hours.
His effort was primordially frustrated 24 hours later as the Honduran de facto government restated on Monday that Zelaya's return would not be an issue for discussion.
Facing increasing pressure from supporters of the ousted Honduran president, to the moment Micheletti's government has held on to its tough posture insisting its legal status.
On June 28 Zelaya was expulsed and deposed by militaries under Honduras' Supreme Court order, which has been condemned worldwide as a coup d'etat.
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