Basque Government says ETA's announcement 'absolutely insufficient'

The Basque regional government says a ceasefire announcement by the armed Basque group ETA is "absolutely insufficient" because the group has not renounced violence or announced its dissolution.

Basque Interior Councillor Rodolfo Ares'' comments were the first official ones, from either the Basque region or Madrid, to ETA''s announcement earlier Sunday that it will no longer commit attacks, although the group did not specificy if it would surrender its weapons or how long the truce might last.

Ares said the ETA pledge "does not take into account what the vast majority of Basque society demands and requires from ETA, which is that it definitively abandon terrorist activity."
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