TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Talks to resolve the Honduran political crisis deadlocked Friday over conflicting proposals for restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya to office, dampening hopes for a resolution in internationally backed negotiations.

"The dialogue is in suspense ... until the other side adopts a reasonable stance," Zelaya told The Associated Press from the Brazilian Embassy, where took refuge after sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21. from his forced exile.

Zelaya’s foreign minister said the talks had collapsed because of the coup-imposed government’s intransigence. Moments later, however, a Zelaya spokesman said the deposed leader would give negotiations two more days to break an impasse over his return to power.

"We are willing to continue the dialogue," Ricardo Martinez, Zelaya’s tourism minister and spokesman, said at a news conference in the Tegucigalpa hotel where talks are taking place.

Negotiators for interim President Roberto Micheletti also said talks would go on even though Micheletti rebuffed a proposal to allow the Honduran Congress to vote on whether Zelaya can return to power. Micheletti offered a counter-proposal that called for the Supreme Court to decide the matter, an idea immediately rejected by Zelaya.

"The proposal is completely unacceptable," said Victor Meza, a member of Zelaya’s negotiating team.

Although Congress voted to back Zelaya’s ouster, lawmakers have since said they would support any agreement that emerged from talks. There has been no such assurance from the Supreme Court, which had ordered Zelaya’s arrest days before the coup. Instead of arresting him, soldiers flew Zelaya into exile at gunpoint on June 28.