ETA continues its process of disarmament, says Verification Commission – Terra Peru

ETA continues its process of disarmament, says Verification Commission – Terra Peru

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December 21, 2014 • 14:23

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The armed Basque separatist organization ETA continues with the unilateral process of sealing your arsenal, said Sunday a group international experts, to which the Basque regional government responded by proposing a “fast, workable and effective” plan.

The so-called International Commission of Verification (CIV), panel set up in 2011 and not recognized by Madrid, “has received reports of ETA that continues the process of sealing and decommissioning operational use of their weapons, ammunition and explosives,” he said in a statement.

The Basque separatist organization “has reiterated VSD the commitment made public on March 1, 2014, “added the expert group on conflict resolution, led by South Africa’s former Minister of Intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils.

During a visit to the Basque Country in February, the Commission announced to the media have found that ETA had “taken out of operational use a certain amount of weapons, ammunition and explosives.”

It was a symbolic gesture more than two years after the armed organization announced on October 20, 2011 the definitive cessation of violence, without getting since negotiations with the Spanish government for its disappearance.

On March 1, ETA confirmed in a statement its commitment to “seal until the last arsenal” and put “out of operational use.” And on July 20 announced “the dismantling of the logistical and operational structures” used for their attacks.

None of these gestures received a response from Madrid, who requires the organization, considered responsible for the deaths of 829 people in four decades of bombings, a solution without conditions.

“A sealed weapons without verification without calendar amounts to nothing,” said the Basque regional executive, led by nationalist PNV.

“A practical political effects, it is a form of non-disarmament”, he said, in response to the announcement of the CIV, referring to the chosen organization method.

“It has come when making a direct placement to ETA with a concrete proposal for a quick, workable and effective disarmament process, “the Basque Government, which given the inaction of Madrid has already proposed above make the process locally.

and proposed the creation of a committee, with the support of the Basque regional parliament, which ETA transmit the location of their arsenals.

“The Basque political and social society is not the same with or without disarmament “he emphasized, estimating that” non-disarmament prevents move on, constitutes a factual and symbolic element that anchors us to the past and remember the threat of violence. “

The president of the Basque government, the nationalist Inigo Urkullu, met in September in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whom he called “consensus between both governments a state policy regarding peace and coexistence” to include “the definitive disarmament and verified ETA” had informed its executive

Founded in September 2011, the CIV is also composed by Chris Maccabe, political, former director of the Office of Northern Ireland UK.; Ram Manikkalingam, exasesor President of Sri Lanka for negotiations with the LTTE; Satish Nambiar, former head of the UN mission in the former Yugoslavia in 1992 and 1993; Aracelly Santana, attached exrepresentante the Secretary General of the UN and Fleur Ravensbergen, Deputy Director of Dialogue Advisory Group.