Salvadorian President Mauricio Funes said here Monday he had ordered the closure of Salvador's embassy in Honduras to show his solidarity with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

The embassy won't be opened until Zelaya, who was forced into exile in Costa Rica by the military this weekend, is reinstated, Funes told reporters upon his arrival here for a series of meetings on Honduras.

Funes will attend the summits of the Group of Rio, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and the Central American Integration System (SICA) to discuss Sunday's Honduras military coup.

Hundreds of troops stormed the presidential residence in Honduras' capital of Tegucigalpa early Sunday. Zelaya was taken onto a plane and whisked to Costa Rica.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias called for a demilitarization across Central America, saying that the coup has magnified this necessity.

"That is why my dream of 20 years ago, of building a Central America without armies, remains relevant," he said. "My dream was to make this the first demilitarized zone by getting rid of armies," he added.

Arias will take over SICA's six-month rotating presidency from his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, later on Monday.

Source: Xinhua