Spain To Begin Talks With ETA
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Madrid, Spain (AHN) - The Spanish government has announced it will begin talks with the Basque separatist group ETA. In a nationally televised speech, Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a Socialist, announced, "The government is going to start negotiations with ETA." While PM Zapatero failed to set a firm date for the start of negotiations, he says "democracy will not pay any political price to achieve peace." "The process is going to be long, tough and difficult. We'll handle it with determination and prudence, with unity and loyalty and always with respect to the memory of the victims." The move comes after ETA, widely held as a terror group, announced and followed a ceasefire in late March. At the time, ETA had been at war with Spain for over 30 years, and was responsible for over 800 deaths.
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