In a statement reach GARA, ETA has responded directly to the Brussels Declaration filed in late March by a dozen very referential world leaders on conflict resolution. After collecting at that text was a "specific request" to the organization and emphasized that not dodge their "responsibility", explains his "readiness to examine jointly the steps required by the democratic process, including commitments to be taken by ETA '.
This is the third point of his response to the signers of the Declaration of Brussels, among whom were several persons awarded the Nobel Peace Prize [the text and the list can be seen on page below]. On the first point, ETA has stressed that "the conflict in Euskal Herria with English and French states is based on profound political reasons. Therefore, to overcome the conflict is needed, rather than partial steps, a comprehensive proposal to incorporate the roots of conflict and untie their knots. "
"The solution should be firm"
In the same vein, ETA said immediately afterwards that to produce an overrun "final" of the conflict, "the final solution should be inevitably built around multilateral commitments and develop through dialogue and negotiation. "
"If there will democratic, and this is now possible to resolve the conflict, "stressed ETA.
In recent months there have been several political officials have insisted that ETA had no direct response to the Brussels Declaration. In this regard, the armed organization makes clear in his message that attaches great value to the initiative. Notes that among the signatories are "persons with extensive experience in conflict resolution hard" and that the declaration has become an undeniable reference "in Euskal Herria.
therefore expresses above all his "respect and gratitude to the men and women who signed the Declaration" and adds that making a contribution.
The metaphor of the ship
In the message include the repeated assertions of the armed organization on its "willingness" to find the solution, and the allusion to the unilateral thrust of this initiative, which is emphasized by a graphic figure: " Faced with the closure of Spain and France, ETA has once again sail the boat of opportunity for the democratic resolution of conflict. And he has taken the first decision not to anchor, with disposition to navigate deeper waters. "
In the last paragraphs of this statement, the Basque armed organization insists that it is possible the solution if there is a will, and puts as an example that in the last two decades "there are many new states that have emerged in the heart of Europe and have found international acceptance." Also cites Greenland and Scotland, as "people who are building their sovereignty that provokes the will of the people."
While underlining that it is aware that the key to the solution lies in Euskal Herria, ETA assessed as "very important" international contribution. In this regard, calls on actors and international institutions "to promote and to participate in the structuring of a democratic process that gives a permanent solution, just and democratic centuries-old political conflict. " Six months
The release is targeted specifically at this time the international community, as highlighted from the header.
includes other statements that are groundbreaking report. So, after ETA claimed two weeks ago that made the decision months ago not to conduct offensive military actions, now concrete when issued the Brussels Declaration had already entered the stage: "It's been six months since March Brussels Declaration (...). As is known, in these six months ETA has carried out armed actions. ETA by then had already given order to cease and desist operating groups had prepared ", she said.
Following the statement issued last week by the BBC, the English government actually admitted that he knew that ETA had ceased its attacks, although he had hidden. In public statements, the Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has placed this decision more or less around the month of February, which coincides with the statement made ETA now.
"I have wasted"
This press GARA now reached a reference to successive English governments and their attitude to military action. He complains that "the have an excuse, saying that as long armed struggle there can be no solution. " However, they criticized that every time it has been interrupted "have squandered the opportunity. Apparently with no armed struggle option, and without armed struggle and there is no need. " ETA considers an "old form" of encysting the situation.
In the first part of the statement, ETA said the international community the historical roots of political conflict and violent confrontation has occurred. Enter in your analysis statements like this: "History has left a primary school Euskal Herria: the pseudo-solutions of today are the source of future conflicts."
alludes to armed action, but also to "state terrorism", torture, the actual existence of more than 700 prisoners and the fact that one of them, Mari Joxe Sagardui Gatza, bring 30 years in prison. And lists their efforts to try to overcome the conflict democratically: Alternative KAS (1976), the talks in Algiers (1989), the Democratic Alternative (1995), the cease-fire of 1998 or the last attempt to negotiate 2006.
"It is difficult to armed struggle in Europe ETA admits one of the excerpts from his statement," but is not it more difficult to understand that Basque citizens are denied the right to decide their future freely and democratically? ", then asks in his message to the international community.
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