Basque separatist group ETA is abiding by the ceasefire it declared in March, the Spanish government said this afternoon.
It said it had received a third report from security forces in northeast Spain that confirmed the findings of two earlier reports on a truce.
"The information in it ... confirms that the ceasefire is holding and there has not been any terrorist activity," Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a news conference following the government's weekly cabinet meeting.
"The three (reports) show that the road towards peace is continuing to go in the right direction."
ETA has described its ceasefire as "permanent", a word it has never used before in such circumstances.
That has raised hopes that after 38 years in which it has killed about 850 people, the group might finally have abandoned its violent campaign for Basque independence.
However, the group has broken at least four such truces in the past and the government has vowed to keep a close eye on the situation to make sure the peace lasts.
Last month, there were two arson attacks on businesses in the Basque country which initially looked that they might have constituted an infringement of the truce, but the government in Madrid later said it did not believe ETA was responsible.