The Declaration of Brussels, signed in March of 2010 by various Nobel Peace Prize winners, marked a starting point for the progressive implication of the international community in favour of a resolution process in the Basque Country.

Since then the initiatives have been constant, from the Basque Country as well as from the International sphere in support of building a scenario of peace in the Basque Country.

This international accompaniment had, without a doubt, its maximum exponent in the Conference of Aiete, of which the second anniversary has just passed, and in which prominent personalities outlined a roadmap for the resolution of the conflict through the way of dialogue.

Two years later, the "Continental Encounter for Peace in the Basque Country", celebrated yesterday in the Museum of Mexico City, supposes a new and prominent backing from the international community to the process open in the Basque Country.

An important line-up of Latin American personalities, among whom figure 13 former presidents, expressed their support yesterday in Mexico for the path opened in Aiete. Apart from the civil entities who organized the event, esteemed for their work in favour of human rights, they will make known a series of initiatives to promote inside and outside of the American continent the support for the Declaration of Aiete.

These type of initiatives help to consolidate the hope open in Basque society, it supposes an impulse for all of those who work for negotiated solutions in our country. At the same time, it makes manifest that the reactionary attitude of the Spanish and French states has no place in the political moment that the Basque Country is living.

For that, from SORTU we wish to express our respect to the participants in the encounter in Mexico and transfer at the same time our recognition to the organizers of the event, who through their work have made possible that personalities of very different thoughts and experiences have made their own the majority desire of Basque society in favour of a just and lasting peace.