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Chavez
welcomes ETA's ceasefire
declaration
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
said on Sunday that he welcomed
the Basque separatist group
ETA's declaration of a permanent
ceasefire.
"How good it is that ETA has
announced a unilateral
ceasefire," said Chavez in a
radio and television address to
the nation. He also spoke highly
of Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's
"peacemaking" efforts.
ETA announced last Wednesday
that it would begin a permanent
ceasefire starting from Friday.
The Basque separatist group,
which wants to establish an
independent state in northern
Spain and southwestern France,
has killed 850 people since 1968
in its violent campaign.
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