ETA warns new government

Basque separatist group ETA indicated today it will press ahead with its goal of an independent country separate from Spain either by dialogue with the incoming Socialist government or renewed attacks.

The newspaper Gara, which ETA customarily chooses to air its views, published a short statement from the group praising Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s plan to withdraw Spanish peacekeeping troops from Iraq as a “brave and valiant gesture”.