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SG/SM/10387

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ETA CEASEFIRE

23 March 2006
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/10387
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ETA CEASEFIRE


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General welcomes the permanent ceasefire declared yesterday by ETA.  He urges that this commitment be honoured, thus ending the violence which has caused so much suffering over so many years.


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