The Basque separatist group ETA has declared what it called a permanent and internationally verifiable cease-fire.
ETA's statement in the pro-independence newspaper "Gara" made no mention of ETA dissolving or giving up its weapons as demanded by the Spanish government.
Spain's interior minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said an ETA cease-fire declaration failed to meet expectations but was not bad news.
ETA declared what it called a permanent cease-fire in 2006, but that truce ended up lasting just nine months as talks with the government went nowhere.
The group is considered a terrorist organization by Spain, the European Union and the United States, and it has killed more than 800 people since the late 1960s.
compiled from agency reports
ETA's statement in the pro-independence newspaper "Gara" made no mention of ETA dissolving or giving up its weapons as demanded by the Spanish government.
Spain's interior minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said an ETA cease-fire declaration failed to meet expectations but was not bad news.
ETA declared what it called a permanent cease-fire in 2006, but that truce ended up lasting just nine months as talks with the government went nowhere.
The group is considered a terrorist organization by Spain, the European Union and the United States, and it has killed more than 800 people since the late 1960s.
compiled from agency reports
