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
Images of burned hopes and destroyed villages recall scenes we had hoped we would never see again, ... Milosevic must know there is no place for his policy in Europe on the eve of the 21st century.
I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic, will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.
I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days,
A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.
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.
Once again, the European Union recalls that it is absolutely against terror and that these actions kill the hopes of peace.
in order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.
It's not in the mind of anyone at this point in time, the use of military action, no. I hope very much that ... we will find a peaceful solution, a diplomatic solution.
I do hope very much (the winners) will be people who look to the future and not to the past,
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.
Rather than talk about a state of war, we should discuss a state of peace.
NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires,
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.