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
There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.
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.
For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.
The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.
Russia has its heart divided between its Slav soul and its disgust for (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic's behavior,
I think we need to give President Konare and the African Union all the support that they need. It is true that sometimes we promise things to the African Union and then we don't give what the promises are. We have to commit ourselves, within our capacities, of course.
All UN resolutions should be implemented and everybody should cooperate with the UN Security Council and the United Nations.
keeping the balance reached with Iran on the nuclear issue.
I have no information whatsoever that tells me with certainty that any of the accusations, allegations, rumors, that have taken place are true.
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.
The accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland ... is perhaps the clearest demonstration of the fact that Europe is growing closer together,
The EU remains willing to resume the negotiations we had with Tehran for a new political and economic relationship,
That is the time in which they have to clarify all these things. If we have not got any sign that they move in that direction it will be very difficult.
I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize,