Javier Solana
Javier Solana
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGFis a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe Gonzálezand Secretary General of NATO, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 July 1942
CountrySpain
An announcement that we will begin formal talks remains the realistic objective.
All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by everybody. It's very difficult that parties who do not condemn violence ... can be partners for the future.
All UN resolutions should be implemented and everybody should cooperate with the UN Security Council and the United Nations.
It clearly proves that diplomacy can win over the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.
I think the position now is what we have said, ...which is to have a decision to call for an extraordinary meeting in Vienna of the (IAEA) agency and then to refer the dossier to the Security Council.
I think with those few things, everyone will be happy. It will be good for the Russian administration, for the Russian people, and it would be good for the international community,
It is for the leaders who are concerned to take this decision. We hope that the African Union will decide to move to a U.N. mission.
I welcome the commitment by North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and to return at an early date to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to IAEA safeguards,
I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.
I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize,
The peace agreement must be seen as a matter of urgency.
If the use of military force, or the threat of use of military force, is necessary to bring about a political solution, NATO is prepared to do it,
If Turkey is ready, we must begin talks. And if Croatia is ready, there too. But we can't have a quid pro quo with the fate of these countries' populations.