The Wish of the People

If the wish of the inhabitants of the different colonies in America, Africa and Asia had been left on the side to upheld the wish of the colonizing powers, there would be not a single independent nation in those continents today.

It is simple evolution, the colonizing power will never be able to suffocate the national identity and the right to the self determination of the colonized nations.

Here is a nothe that appeared today at Berria regarding the wish of the Basques in the Basque Autonomous Community to be heard regarding their right to their self determination, reason why the voted again, and again, for a moderate nationalist political party:

Ibarretxe: “The wishes of the Basque people will not be overridden by the PP and the PSOE”

The President of the Basque Autonomous Community told Zapatero yesterday that he was prepared to negotiate the Proposal for the New Statute of Autonomy and stressed that “an opportunity which we must not waste” would present itself

Edurne Begiristain – GASTEIZ (Vitoria)

Juan Jose Ibarretxe, the Lehendakari (President) of the BAC-Basque Autonomous Community, appeared before the media for the first time yesterday since the New Statute Proposal was passed by an absolute majority in the BAC Parliament last Thursday. During breakfast with journalists at the Lehendakari’s headquarters Ibarretxe reiterated that the period of negotiations had started and that the PP and the PSOE were not going to “override” the wishes of the Basque people.

He explained, among other things, that the New Statute Proposal was no longer a project of the BAC Government, but of the BAC Parliament, now that it had been passed. He went on to say that the commitment made by the BAC Government four years ago had been fulfilled, because the proposal for resolving the conflict had been put on the table, debated and put to the vote. However, he would not commit himself on the date for the referendum.

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