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12/03/2004
UN passes resolution condemning ETA as 'threat to peace'
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Basque separatist group Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) saying that it regards them as "a threat to peace and security."
The resolution also expressed the 15-member body's "reinforced determination to combat all forms of terrorism", and conveyed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the people and government of Spain and to the victims of the attacks and their families.
The text of the resolution also urged all states "to cooperate actively in efforts to find and bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this terrorist attack".
Speaking to reporters outside the Council's chambers after the vote, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain, Ana María Menéndez, said: "In this moment of grief and pain and suffering for the Spanish people, we have felt comforted by the unanimous and very fast adoption of resolution 1530 by the Security Council.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the atrocity as "senseless killing" which "cannot be justified regardless of the cause”.
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The resolution also expressed the 15-member body's "reinforced determination to combat all forms of terrorism", and conveyed its deepest sympathy and condolences to the people and government of Spain and to the victims of the attacks and their families.
The text of the resolution also urged all states "to cooperate actively in efforts to find and bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of this terrorist attack".
Speaking to reporters outside the Council's chambers after the vote, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain, Ana María Menéndez, said: "In this moment of grief and pain and suffering for the Spanish people, we have felt comforted by the unanimous and very fast adoption of resolution 1530 by the Security Council.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the atrocity as "senseless killing" which "cannot be justified regardless of the cause”.
(gmcg)
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