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
The European Union is here to help. But we are not here in a mediating function.
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.
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.
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.
Madrid will be remembered as the time when North America and Europe came together to shape the course of a new century, ... United by common purpose and shared values, the new alliance stands ready to shape a brighter, more secure future.
The United Nations should continue to be the center of gravity in the post-conflict period.
NATO is resolved to persevere until the violence in Kosovo has ended and a political solution has been reached,
the centre of gravity should be the United Nations.
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,