Spain won’t say whether first meeting with ETA really took place
The Spanish government refused to confirm press reports of a first meeting with the Basque separatist group ETA, some nine months after a ceasefire revived hopes of ending four decades of violence. “My ministry has never confirmed, denied or commented on information” on the peace process in the Basque country, “and we are not about to change this,” Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said at a news conference. Full Story