Adams confident Eta cease-fire will last

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said today he was confident the cease-fire by the armed Basque group Eta would be permanent, but warned that the breaking of ties by Spain’s main opposition party with the government over the peace process did not augur well.

“I believe the Eta statement,” Adams said at a news conference in Madrid. “I don’t see any sense in them making such a statement about a permanent cessation unless they were sincere about it.”