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Basque separatist group that has killed over 800 people suspected of being ready to make a statement this week

In a historic step for Spain, the Basque separatist armed group ETA, this week is expected to announce the retirement of more than four decades of violence, according to sources close to the negotiations.

with former Secretary General, Kofi Annan, flying in the Basque region on Monday for talks and a recent call for hundreds of ETA prisoners to end the violence, sources in the Basque Country and others involved in the process of saying that the group make an important announcement soon.

senior Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been saying for weeks, they expect the group to take such action. Eta and observation of what he described as "permanent" cease-fire, called in September 2010, despite unilateral truces broken earlier had considered permanent.

Although it was difficult to say exactly what they use on your next statement ETA, which promises to be an irreversible step towards the end of a group that has killed over 800 people in bomb and gun in Spain in the last 43 years.

a public call from Annan and mediators, including the president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, to embrace peace Eta will provide the group an excuse to declare their willingness to abandon weapons, according to sources . Radical Basque separatist political leaders Adams and imitate the movements during the peace process in Ulster, when, in 2005, appealed directly to the IRA to disarm.

Eta is expected to respond quickly, although short stop to announce its dissolution. You can follow the example of the IRA, calling its members to use exclusively peaceful means, without dissolving. Those who have experience of ETA, however, insist that the group remains unpredictable.

The spectacular new moves come just a month before the general elections of November 20, which looks set to change the government of Spain, the Popular Party (PP) Mariano Rajoy would win a landslide victory .

Although PP has always refused to consider any form of dialogue with ETA, are known to have been in contact with the group for a ceasefire in 1998. PP hardliners Prime Minister at the time, José María Aznar, who had tried to kill ETA car bomb in 1995 but moved some of the prisoners from the prison group close to home, in a gesture of good will .

Regional Basque Socialist Patxi Lopez Prime Minister last month responded to a call for ETA prisoners group embrace peace by suggesting that those who are in prison in Spain moved to Basque jails.

Rajoy was careful not to comment on recent signs that ETA is looking for a way out of the impasse of terrorism. In fact, ETA has just talked about - it was an obsession for his match with Aznar - in the last four years in opposition

leaders of the PP in the Basque Country, which has seen several of its members killed by ETA in recent years has become much more open to help the fine end of the group.

considered a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States, ETA has been down for over a decade, with its ability to carry out terrorist attacks in Spain, seriously weakened. However, attempts to stop relying on violence after he called a ceasefire in 2006 failed, and the group placed a bomb that killed two people at Barajas airport.

Zapatero has not yet decided the group since then, but was waiting for a significant movement of ETA before the elections in November. "Will definitely do something before the elections," said a source close to the Prime Minister. "But in the end can be long and will not be easy."

Eta is widely regarded as an organization that has come to terms with their defeat by the French and Spanish police.

the group's decision to lay down arms can lead to the emergence of dissident groups dedicated to maintaining the violence is, like the Real IRA in Northern Ireland, according to a former senior Ministry of within a socialist.

talks Monday will be peace mediators, including former chief of staff Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, to discuss the process with local politicians. These include both close to radical separatists ETA, the Basque branch of the Socialist party of Zapatero. PP Rajoy will not attend.

"If ETA and its environment need this in order to achieve its ultimate goal, I invite you to take this opportunity," Lopez told reporters in New York on Sunday.

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Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom) was founded to fight for the independence of the four Spanish provinces of North and South west France

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