Iparretarrak ("the Northerners" in Basque) is an illegal armed Basque nationalist organization operating in the French Basque Country. It has targeted touristic developments. The Gernika oak is a symbol of Basque freedoms. ... This article is about the traditional Basque domain. ...
It has had an uneasy relation with ETA, a more powerful organization based in the Spanish Basque Country. In spite of the similarity of ideology, ETA used the French Basque Country as a sanctuary and did not want to provoke the French Government. ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA (IPA: [ˈɛËta]), is an illegal armed Basque separatist organization that seeks to create, through violence, an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states with Basque population. ... Sanctuary has multiple meanings. ...
Expresses its respect and solidarity to all victims of terrorist violence, including both those injured or killed by ETA and Iparretarrak and those equally damaged by the illegal counter-terrorist and paramilitary forces act under the auspices by the Spanish Government in the 70s and 80s.
Calls upon E.T.A. and Iparretarrak to declare a final cease-fire, to dismantle their armed organisations and to fully and truly adopt political participation as the only admissible way to achieve their goals.
Expresses its satisfaction at the political will, the sensitive approach and the flexibility and generosity shown by the Basque authorities and parliament and by the Spanish Government towards the achievement of a final peace in the Basque Country, in the light of the experiences resulting from the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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