Basque Thank you.

I'd like to sing in Basque, which is the language spoken in the Basque Country where I live, in the region in France and Spain.

This is a song that I wrote based on traditional Basque rhythms.

1.1 The complainant is I.S.D., born on 6 November 1972, a Basque of Spanish nationality who is currently being held in the Ávila II prison in Spain.

The State party notes that it is difficult to understand why the complainant remained voluntarily on Spanish soil for more than a year and a half and engaged in pro Basque political action.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Aurrekoetxea (member of the Basque Parliament and Chair of the European Parliament Intergroup Peace and Freedom in the Sahara ) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom heard folk instrument the hurdy gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000 year history.

She had remained in Spain for that entire period, during which she had furthermore been very openly engaged in political activity on behalf of the Basque cause, rather than attempting to find a refuge in order to escape the serious risks of torture she reports.

A state is far more likely to go to war to defend its unity. The United States and Spain did it in their civil wars, and today s Spain would go to the outer limits of its capacity to prevent a Catalan or Basque referendum, let alone independence.

ROME Many separatist movements in Europe have resorted to various violent terrorist acts since the second half of the twentieth century. From the 1960 s onwards, bombs and death were the order of the day in regions like Northern Ireland, Corsica (France), South Tyrol (Italy), and the Basque country (Spain).

The Basque terrorist organization ETA has ended its truce with the Spanish government, and, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding, placed bombs in the town of Burgos and on the island of Majorca. Fortunately, elsewhere in Europe, reason seems to prevail nowadays and the resort to violence has been curtailed.

Mr. Aurrekoetxea (member of the Basque Parliament and Chair of the European Parliament Intergroup Peace and Freedom in the Sahara ) said that, in 29 years, the international community had still not been able to achieve the decolonization of Western Sahara. Its people were tired of resisting, despite the eloquent and flowery messages of passive support they had received.