Basque civil society groups and international observers said that there will be an event next month in southern France that will be key to ending the Basque conflict. "We believe this event will be primordial in advancing the definitive peace process," Kendall said. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said earlier Monday that ETA's crimes wouldn't go unpunished just because they disband. "ETA must disappear because that is the only option remaining after being defeated by the police," Rajoy told newspaper Ultima Hora Mallorca. "And in no case will their crimes disappear, nor the responsibility for having committed them."

Source: ABC News April 23, 2018 16:52 UTC