In Honduras, lawmakers have delayed a vote on a US-brokered deal to reinstate the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. On Tuesday, a top congressional panel said it would first seek an opinion from the Honduran Supreme Court. Honduran lawmaker Silvia Ayala criticized the delay as a coup regime stall tactic.

Silvia Ayala: “What we feared would be a delay on behalf of the leaders of the coup, by only calling Congress’s board of directors to avoid the whole Congress from deciding on the restitution of our president. It’s happened. The coup leaders have decided, in order to delay and not solve the problem, to send the accord to the Supreme Court.”

As the postponement was announced, the Organization of American States launched a commission to oversee the implementation of Zelaya’s reinstatement. The panel includes US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis: “The President, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and many of us in the Obama administration view this as a priority for us. We know that what happens here can have implications regionally, and we know that we can solve these issues, everyone working together but hearing from the people of Honduras.”