国际英语新闻：Spanish society receives ETA's truce announcement with calm

Meanwhile, the leader of the Catalan Nationalist's CiU, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, said he didn't believe ETA's words.

"It is purely and simply another maneuver of the terrorist group. All we have to ask ETA (to do) is that it stops killing people and that it stops issuing communiques such as this. They should realize that Basque society wants nothing to do with them and that they are totally isolated," he said.

The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) has refused to make any comments until it has celebrated its weekly directors meeting on Monday.

One of the most positive assessments of the truce came from outside of Spain. Gerry Adams, the leader of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, saw the announcement as offering hope.

"Now it is vital for the Spanish Government to respond in a positive manner and to take the opportunity offered by today's announcement by quickly starting negotiations that are politically inclusive," he told Irish television RTE.