Dialogue without exclusions for a Normalisation Agreement As well as being committed to the human rights and liberties of all persons, EAJ-PNV, EA and EB- Berdeak are also committed to respect our right to decide our own future as a people, in accordance with the right to self-determination passed by the Basque Parliament on February 15 1990. In accordance with this commitment, we urge the State to respect the decisions adopted freely and democratically by Basque society. Based on our shared commitment to this democratic principle, the parties that form part of the government coalition reiterate their conviction that with this legislature, the moment has come to initiate a dialogue without exclusions that will allow us to reach an Agreement that will integrate the different, legitimate viewpoints that represent the roots of the real political normalisation of Basque society. The political formations that make up this government coalition, EAJ-PNV, EA and EB-Berdeak, trust completely the maturity of Basque society to decide its own future and to establish the framework of political relations that it wishes to have with the Spanish State, in accordance with the principles of coexistence. A true relationship of democratic coexistence must be based on the principles of free decision and not by means of imposition. For this reason, any Normalisation Agreement must include the democratic principle that Basque society has the right to be consulted about its own future, in a violence-free environment and without impositions, as well as a respect for plurality and a commitment to the agreement, based on mutual recognition. In this sense, we understand that a Normalisation Agreement must be pursued in accordance with a specific model of political self-government and social construction of the Basque Country and within a legal framework for relations with the Spanish State. We are beginning a new stage. In this new period of hope for Basque society, all our political groups have been given a new opportunity to seek broader agreements based on the confidence that political dialogue between opposites, the open-minded generosity of our politicians and the democratic comparison of all the proposals that have been put forward, will give us the best possible platform for the normalisation of the Basque Country. The opportunity is there for the taking. With the same firmness and conviction that we defend the opportunity for a new agreement, we declare our profound respect for the decisions already passed ...
