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
Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.
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.
It will be put together without any doubt. I think the a good number of countries will participate.
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.
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,
We are in contact with them and whatever they ask for they will be given, from reserves of oil that different countries have provided, to any other thing that they may need.
The military authorities of NATO are contemplating all the possibilities so that an embargo can be guaranteed, not only by NATO-friendly countries but also for other things,
The important thing is not the spokesman, but what the spokesman says, and what the countries will say.
I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
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.