15/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Basque nationalist elected representative for Euskal Herritarrok, Koldo Gorostiaga, organised on Tuesday in Strasbourg on the fringe of the Parliament's plenary session, a press conference with representatives from several Corsican nationalist organisations that had come to appeal for a process to be opened to change the island's status. While demanding negotiations on an equal footing, and without preconditions, with the French State, they said they wished to take part in the building of Europe, of which they accept the principles, including the transfers of sovereignty that are conceded within it.