TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Sunday in an interview that he was confident he would eventually be reinstated, despite the collapse of negotiations with de facto leader Roberto Micheletti.

"There's a crisis. How do we get out of it? With an agreement. That agreement... you must have faith, will come. I can't give you details, but the agreement will come," Zelaya told Radio Globo at the Brazilian Embassy where he is holed up.

Talks to resolve the political crisis collapsed over the de facto government's refusal to reinstate Zelaya, who on Friday rejected Micheletti's offer to step down if he (Zelaya) gave up his claim to the presidency.

Zelaya's negotiators accused the regime of dragging out the talks in the run-up to November 29, when an election is to be held to choose a new president.

Central America's worst political crisis in decades was set off by the June 28 arrest and ouster of Zelaya over his plans to change the constitution, which had upset the country's courts, Congress and business leaders.

Since his surprise return to Honduras on September 21, the former rancher has been in the Brazilian embassy where people inside have reported growing pressure, including loud music and animal grunts being blared in this week.

Zelaya told Globo radio that nobody would recognize the results of the November 29 polls, and that the de facto regime would be left no choice but find a way out of the country's current international isolation and economic woes.

"The world will not recognize those elections and what will be Honduras' destiny then? Remain in isolation, without ambassadors... without consuls, without international relations?

"Is that what they want for Honduras,?" he added referring to the Micheletti regime.

At the end of his interview, Zelaya, his wife Xiomara, and other friends climbed to the roof of the embassy where a priest held a mass for the hundreds of police and soldiers surrounding the building.

Zelaya's envoys this week rejected as "insulting" a proposal from Micheletti's team that the Supreme Court - which accused Zelaya of 18 crimes ahead of the coup - should rule on the issue. Zelaya's term runs out in January. --AFP