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"This door has been closed and the government is not prepared to open it," she said in Costa Rica, where she is kicking off a Latin American tour.
The minister was reacting to reports in the Spanish press on Monday that claimed talks were taking place between ETA and the government through intermediaries.
Spain's interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba extended that hardline stance Monday by saying separately that Batasuna, the banned political wing of ETA, would also remain banned.
Batasuna "must know very clearly that it will never return to our institutions as long as ETA exists," the minister told radio Onda Cero.
Days after bombings that also left 64 people including several children wounded after an attack on a civil guard barracks, Rubalcaba said "the courts have demonstrated that ETA and Batasuna are the same thing."
When asked about past efforts going back to 1989 by Basque nationalist leaders to separate ETA and Batasuna in public consciousness, Rubalcaba said bluntly: "Neither legalisation, nor dialogue."
ETA, which marked its 50th anniversary on Friday, is blamed for the deaths of 828 people in its campaign for an independent Basque homeland encompassing parts of northern Spain and southwest France.
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The minister was reacting to reports in the Spanish press on Monday that claimed talks were taking place between ETA and the government through intermediaries.
Spain's interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba extended that hardline stance Monday by saying separately that Batasuna, the banned political wing of ETA, would also remain banned.
Batasuna "must know very clearly that it will never return to our institutions as long as ETA exists," the minister told radio Onda Cero.
Days after bombings that also left 64 people including several children wounded after an attack on a civil guard barracks, Rubalcaba said "the courts have demonstrated that ETA and Batasuna are the same thing."
When asked about past efforts going back to 1989 by Basque nationalist leaders to separate ETA and Batasuna in public consciousness, Rubalcaba said bluntly: "Neither legalisation, nor dialogue."
ETA, which marked its 50th anniversary on Friday, is blamed for the deaths of 828 people in its campaign for an independent Basque homeland encompassing parts of northern Spain and southwest France.
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