Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Sunday called on all sides in Honduras to keep restraint to avoid the escalation of domestic chaos after the June 28 coup, local media reported.

She made the call in Washington before heading for El Salvador, also reiterating her support for Honduran ousted leader Manuel Zelaya.

She said she hoped that the Honduran political crisis could be resolved peacefully and citizens' rights be fully protected.

The Argentine president had planned to accompany Zelaya to return home on Sunday together with Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa Delgado and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo.

But as the Honduran post-coup government refused to let Zelaya's plane land in Tegucigalpa, the Organization of American States (OAS) decided that Zelaya would be accompanied by the current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmannnn while the three presidents would go to El Salvador.

Zelaya's plane failed to land at the airport in the Honduran capital Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers.

Zelaya had to land in Nicaragua and is expected to fly to El Salvador. He vowed to try again Monday or Tuesday to return home for a reinstatement.

The Argentine president's office said Zelaya will hold talks with OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza, Cristina, Correa and Lugo in El Salvador on how to handle the situation.

Zelaya was removed from office in a military coup on June 28, just hours after some 200 soldiers surrounded his official residence and forced him to board a plane to Costa Rica after a referendum scheduled for the same day on changing the country's constitution put Zelaya at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature.

In the vote, Hondurans were asked whether they would back an official referendum in November, to be held alongside the scheduled presidential election, on changing the constitution to allow a president to seek re-election.

The opposition accused Zelaya, whose current term expires next January, of seeking reelection through the referendum, while the Supreme Court and the attorney general said that the vote was illegal.

The Congress announced after the coup that Roberto Micheletti would replace Zelaya as the country's acting president.

Both the United Nations and the OAS have condemned the coup and called for an immediate reinstatement of Zelaya.

Source: Xinhua