Businessman Arturo Corrales, a member of Honduran President Roberto Micheletti’s negotiating committee, held a surprise meeting with deposed leader Mel Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy to analyze the dialogue being pursued by the two camps to resolve this country’s political crisis.

Corrales told reporters upon leaving the Brazilian mission, where Zelaya has been holed up for about a month, that they had exchanged ideas “with an eye toward the future” and reaching a “final solution” to the crisis.

The meeting, which lasted about an hour, came about after “a very kind invitation” by Zelaya – said Corrales, the former head of the Christian Democrats – and he attended it with the aim of “exchanging” views on certain matters “that have been on the dialogue table.”

“We exchanged information about what had occurred at the dialogue table. He asked me questions, I gave him my views, he gave me his views, in a very Honduran fashion, very friendly, very broad, very much with an eye toward the future,” the businessman said without providing any further details about what they discussed.

Corrales said only that “this information will be an essential part of the final solution to the country’s situation.”

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