Building the Peace Process

It is needed, so the whole of the Basque Society is free to determine its own future, read about it at Berria:

Batasuna to give priority tomorrow to building peace process

The Basque nationalist left is going to commit itself to getting the armed, political conflict off the street and onto the solution table, according to the proposal it is planning to present at the Donostia Cycle Stadium tomorrow afternoon

Pello Urzelai – DONOSTIA (San Sebastian)

The proposal to be presented at the Donostia (San Sebastian) Cycle Stadium tomorrow clearly indicates that Batasuna has given priority to the building of a process aimed at resolving the conflict. Batasuna is keen for the document it will be presenting tomorrow to be a contribution towards building a peace process. In tomorrow’s event it will be stressing the need to build a process through dialogue, because it believes that the conditions are in place to support such a move.

BERRIA has learnt that the proposal Batasuna is set to announce tomorrow will consist of two main parts: firstly, the commitments Batasuna will be making to resolve the conflict and to promote a process of dialogue, and, secondly, a proposal to separate two areas of agreement. This proposal towards building a peace process is in some way similar to the KAS alternative made during the transition period [after the death of Franco] or the 1996 Democratic Alternative. But on those two occasions the initiative was taken by ETA, whereas now it is to be taken by Batasuna “as the public, broad-based expression of the Basque nationalist left”.

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