Pérez Esquivel and the Peace Process

He is one of the international figures strongly supporting the Peace Process initiated by ETA's ceasefire. This article about him was published by EITb:

Pérez Esquivel: ETA reached the "decision to dump arms"

The Nobel winner who signed a document to boost the peace process in the Basque Country alongside other five important international figures thinks the process is dealing with the "minimum demands" at the time being.

The Peace Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel affirmed that, in his opinion, ETA has reached the "decision to dump arms" and tackle a negotiation period "until the solution to problems is found."

In statements for Spanish radio station Cadena Ser, he added he had the feeling that the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has the "political will" to get rid of ETA's violence in the nascent process.

Pérez Esquivel regretted that conservative Popular Party, in his opinion, "turned its back" after ETA's permanent cease-fire even if "there was no advance" when they were in power despite having contacts with ETA.

In turn, the Nobel winner said that the process is, at the time being, dealing with "the minimum demands" and noted it has to advance towards "the intermediate" and "the maximum."

Pérez Esquivel is one of the important figures linked to international politics that has signed the "International Declaration to Support the Basque Process." There the signatories "encourage the two sides involved, the Spanish and the Basque, to follow" the undertaken path "without a break and in the complete absence of violence until its causes are completely wiped out."

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