he said president-elect lobo maze clear that the establishment of a national unity government a truthcommission and political amnesty, as he put it, were actions that needed to be completed before his inauguration on january 27 to facilitate national recognition -- national reconciliation and also facilitate broad international recognition of his government. so we welcome this meeting by costa rican president areas, who has played such -- arias who has played such a significant and helpful role and we hope it leads to, as we said before, further steps in implementing the tagusi-galpa /san jose accords. >> does this mean this is over? are those the things that need to be done for this to be put behind us? >> what we're concerned about is that the hon duran people have a way out -- the honduran people have a way out of this crisis. as we see it, the best way out of this crisis is a step-by-step fulfillment of the accord and we've been very active in encouraging the sides to take these concrete steps in support -- and support other international efforts, such as the efforts of the costa

also on thursday, lobo will visited -- will visit the dominican republic. meanwhile, zelaya stays hidden. he has said, as long as i have brazil, as long as i have brazil's support i will be here. well, brazil, the o.e.s. and any other country should not help him be so cowardly. the o.e.s. should stand up to zelaya so that freedom can prevail. regrettably, the countries announced during their meeting just today that they will not recognize the honor duran elections. -- honduran elections. but the people will not be deterred. the honduran people put their principles to the test. they looked to their congress, they looked to their supreme court, and finally they looked to themselves and carried out peaceful and successful elections. in closing, madam speaker, i would like to quote from honduran president-elect lobo who talked about recent developments in honduras. following his victory, which was resounding, he said, and i quote, there were no winners and losers, only democracy has triumphed. i am happy looking forward to the future. you keep asking and zelaya

-- president- lelect lobo and under is the way that he has called others?>> i would have to check with him on that. >> were going to kick you out of the secret club, lester. [laughter] i'll go to april and then lester and then i will seek refuge. >> present obama made some comments to some reporters recently. i think it is a mistake to think that we're all in this together and we're all going to get out of this together. when you have certain groups that are unique, having unemployment rate double that are close to double that of mainstream america, you have to deal with unique approaches. what you say about this? >> i do not think that there is any doubt that what the president will do is seek -- if you go and look through and i did not do this for the most recent figures but the economic team provided me with different -- broken out by high school and college education. one of the things that you see in this recession is that unlike previous recessions, the joblessness has affected a huge swath of the american people. i think what the president will do an