Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Sunday that the possible association between the country’s largest rebel group and Spain's Basque separatist organization ETA is a "very serious" matter.
Uribe's remarks came a day after the Spanish TV channel TVE broadcast a report on alleged links between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and ETA.
He said FARC has been pursuing terrorism know-how from international groups and has learned from terrorists how to destroy lives with the "most perverse explosives."
"For this, the country has to firmly continue the task of the 'democracy security' (the official policy against rebel violence) to weaken these groups, till they disappear," Uribe said.
During a program on Saturday, the TVE showed a video seized last year by the Colombian intelligence service, in which a man identified as Juan Santrich accused the Spanish government of "suppressing the Basque people."
Spain will not realize stability unless it recognizes the region's "self-determination, territory and liberty," he said.
Colombian officials have said a computer captured in a raid on a FARC camp in March contained e-mails suggesting that the rebel group and ETA could have planned "criminal activity" in Spain.
The video was another proof of the linkage between FARC and the ETA, said Colombian authorities interviewed for the TVE program.
Source:Xinhua
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