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
We have been talking today on how we can send a message to the people in both communities, the Islamic and European, that we need this not to happen again...We strongly hope that people will be now sensible to understand that.
NATO stands ready to act, ... We rule out no option to ensure full respect by both sides in Kosovo for the requirements of the international community.
We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
I have repeated my appeal to both sides to exercise maximum restraint and renew their security cooperation on a systematic basis.
The meetings yesterday proved that we really do have a partnership, which is growing both wider and deeper, ... We do also have some differences. But there is a lot more that unites us than divides us.
What the European Union has decided is that the place where this has to be resolved is in the Security Council.
We have to do the utmost to maintain this relationship.
We are very concerned by the serious deterioration of the security situation in Gaza.
We are very close. The behavior of the Serbs' party in the conference in Paris has been really appalling,
We are trying to see how we can help to scale down the violence, and the situation of tension, and therefore to return to what is a dream of everybody, to try to negotiate a permanent peace.
We are trying to provide the necessary resources we hope that we will have enough money to support the Palestinian Authority until a new government is formed.
We think it is part of history, this embargo, but we have to find a manner and the moment in which it can be done without any difficulty, any problem.
We think it is part of history, this embargo.
I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days,