WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon will visit Honduras on Wednesday when the settlement of a four-month-old political crisis in the central American country is said to be in sight.

    Shannon, to be joined by two other U.S. officials, will have talks with ousted President Manuel Zelaya and Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

    "The delegation plans to meet with representatives from both sides ... to urge both sides to show flexibility and redouble their efforts to bring the crisis to an end," Kelly said.

    "We're just taking every opportunity to try and press on both sides the urgency of the situation and to try and get them to resolve this as soon as possible."

    In a coup on June 28, Zelaya was kidnapped at home, forced onto a military aircraft and flown to Costa Rica. He returned to Tegucigalpa at the end of September surreptitiously, and has been hiding in the Brazilian embassy since.

    Zelaya told his supporters on Sunday that an agreement would soon be reached on settling the country's political crisis.

    Micheletti said on Monday that the door for dialogue to solve the country's political crisis remained open, and he was ready for anything, even relinquishing power.