Spanish premier says no more dialogue with ETA

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Source: AFP/YahooNews

MADRID (AFP) - - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Friday his government would not give the Basque armed separatist group ETA any more chances to end their conflict through dialogue.

"Democracy has given ETA three opportunities to finish its dreadful campaign of senseless crimes," Zapatero said, referring to the attempts at negotiations made by him and his two predecessors.

"ETA has wasted the three opportunities. There will not be any others," the Socialist leader said at a news conference following the last cabinet meeting of 2008.

The government began talks with ETA after the group declared a "permanent ceasefire" in March 2006. But the government called them off after ETA detonated a car bomb at Madrid airport nine months later, killing two people.

Read more: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081227/twl-spain-eta-basques-separatists-politi-6b0205e.html

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