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The Executive Committee
of Socialist International Women, meeting in Madrid on 25-26 February
2000, in response to the assassination of Fernando Buesa, Secretary
General of the PSE-PSOE in Alava, and of his bodyguard, the Basque
policeman Jorge Díez Elorza, wishes today to express its
strong condemnation of this brutal act, its condolences to the
families of the victims, and its solidarity with the Socialist
Party of the Basque country, at this difficult time.
The death of Fernando
Buesa is an attack on liberty and plurality. However, it is also
the destruction of the life of a person. Violence, the destruction
of valuable human lives and we women know the value of life,
we know the care needed for it to develop and flourish they
do nothing but distance us from peace.
We reaffirm
that civil peace has first place as the supreme good. Without
it, there can be neither justice nor progress. Without peace people
cannot seek higher objectives, they cannot achieve a full
life. We strongly condemn the assassination, be it a political
act or one with some other aim.
We remain convinced
that Spanish democracy offers a sufficiently wide and pluralist
framework to allow the expression of all voices within it.
We call on all
parties Spanish and Basque political parties, the unions
and social institutions to put make peace and people the
priority, and to subordinate all other considerations to this
end. So that above all peace comes to Euzkadi.
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