The PSOE's International Relations Secretary, Trinidad Jimenez,lamented the killing of hostages in a Russian school and affirmed it is necessary to implement an international plan to prevent the repetition of such actions.

At least 330 people, including 156 children, were killed in the three-day hostage-taking tragedy in the school of Beslan in Russia's North Ossetia.

Jimenez said, "A State has to defend and seek a balance at the time to take decisions preventing terrorist groups from checking the government, but this type of events shouldn't be repeated."

"Perhaps negotiations ought to have taken place with the terrorists, always safeguarding what the government has to do, without giving up to the terrorist blackmailing," she added.

Jimenez expressed the sorrow and mourning of PSOE over the tragic ending of the mass kidnapping in the Beslan school. "It was a tragedy of incalculable dimensions, marked by the fact that many of the victims were children," she said.