The United States has received Brazil's request for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Honduran crisis and will relay it to other members of the body, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
The United States currently chairs the 15-member council. Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted from power in a June coup, took refuge in Brazil's embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa after returning to his country on Monday.