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
It will mean a better deal for European taxpayers, and for their armed forces. And it is a vital step for ensuring that our defense industries remain globally competitive.
The European Union is here to help. But we are not here in a mediating function.
I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.
Regarding relations with the European Union, all the declarations of the election campaign have been positive.
Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.
I want to tell them that they have a place, without any doubt, among the family of the European nations.
It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow. The taxpayers in the European Union, members of the Parliament of the European Union, will not be in a position to sustain that type of political activity.
Once again, the European Union recalls that it is absolutely against terror and that these actions kill the hopes of peace.
Now we have the most important security presence in the Middle East ever taken by the European Union ... We are entering also the security aspect.
Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.
I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.
I would like to express very clearly that the European Union people do respect the countries of this part of the world and don't want to offend anybody.
Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground,
Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.