UN General Assembly
1998

the murder and mutilation of another human being, as occurred in my country? On this question, some countries present here are acting with a double standard; depending on their own interests, terrorist actions are justifiable or not. When these actions take place within a developing country, some powerful communications media invoke, among other such fallacies, the “struggle for the freedom of peoples” to do away with regimes that, according to them, are dictatorial. But when similar actions of the same type take place in any country of the North, then the story changes, and those responsible for such actions are called terrorists and enemies of society. That double standard was evident when such actions received the support and solidarity of certain Spanish political groups and elements of the Spanish communications media. Only the Government of that country condemned those acts. On the other hand, a lobby was formed from among several political parties — the Basque Nationalist Party, the United Left and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party — each of which published communiqués expressing their solidarity with the