• We sincerely hope that all those involved in the Basque peace process will find encouragement in our humble experience that even long-standing and seemingly insurmountable differences can be solved through negotiation.
    image Nelson Mandela Cape Town 1999-02-15
  • Arnaldo Otegi and other Abertzale left leaders jailed and prosecuted for political activities must be released. There is no sense in trying to condemn to 10 years jail imprisonment, the political leaders whose work was basically to try to develop a negotiated solution to the conflict.
    image Chris Matlhako SACP Secretary for International Relations
  • Putting Arnaldo Otegi in prison was stupid, a real craze. A peace process can not operate if the maximum representative of one of the sides is in prison. It judges on a democratic state shouldn't act this way. I think that Spanish judges follow the agenda set up by the PP. A peace process should be separated of the actions of judges. It is unimaginable that a judge in the North of Ireland had put Gerry Adams in jail in the middle of the negotiation.
    image Father Alec Reid July 2007
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