TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP)—U.S. troops sent here for emergency training exercises will stay on to complete the maneuvers, a U.S. military spokesman said Tuesday although Honduras says its border crisis with Nicaragua is over.

“Right now the plans are to make it a 10- to 14-day exercises. We have not received any directive as to when to begin redeployment,” said U.S. spokesman Maj. Gary Hovatter in a telephone interview.

He said exercises were taking place Tuesday at four sites.

President Reagan ordered 3,200 American troops to Honduras last week at the request of President Jose Azcona Hoyo, who had accused Sandinista soldiers from neighboring Nicaragua of penetrating Honduran territory in pursuit of U.S.-supported Contra rebels.

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua denied his troops were in Honduras. Last week Honduran jets twice bombed Nicaraguan positions to force them to leave. No casualties were reported.

Honduran Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that the border tension “has virtually disappeared” after both the Sandinistas and the Contras suspended hostilities and began truce talks.

The three days of negotiations began Monday in the small southern Nicaraguan town of Sapa, near the Costa Rican border. The talks are mainly at reaching a cease-fire so that both sidec can strike a permanent peace accord in their 7-year-old war.

The dispatch of the U.S. troops bolstered the American military presence in Honduras to about 6,000 servicemen. The Reagan administration billed it as both a show of support for Azcona and a warning to the Sandinistas against further actions in the border region.