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
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's good to talk, but their position has to change ... they know how to change, they know what they have to change.
The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate NATO's capability to project power rapidly in the region,
They have been a terrorist organization. They have to change their methods and they have to accept that violence is incompatible with democracy.
This is a significant step forward for regional and global stability.
This is going to be a long process. It is going to be a process with tensions and complications that will make everybody sometimes have to make painful sacrifices and painful engagements and commitments.
This is the first time a border is opened and not controlled by the Israelis. As you can imagine this is a very important step.
This is not the moment to discuss anything. This is moment to transmit and to admit sorrow, to transmit friendship.
This is Palestinian money, which cannot be withheld.
The wealth of agreements we will be signing together on September 5 bears witness to the increasing levels of practical cooperation.
The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.
This announcement is very bad news, but the timing of action by the international community remains that agreed by the UN Security Council.
Rather than talk about a state of war, we should discuss a state of peace.
Probably on the second of February, I will not be able to answer in the morning. I'll have to probably answer at night.