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 would like very much that (Abbas) will have the capability of appointing a government that goes in the direction that President Mubarak and the EU would like to go.
The government in Macedonia is committed to move forward in the direction of political reforms and economic reforms and with inter-ethnic relationships so that it can become eventually a member of the European family institutionally.
But in order for it to happen there has to be an urgent change of direction to deliver the peace, democracy and other civil liberties that the people of Nepal want and need.
That is the time in which they have to clarify all these things. If we have not got any sign that they move in that direction it will be very difficult.
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.
The paper on Iran is a paper of reflection. As you know the situation of Iran today is in the Security Council. It has been a statement by the Presidency of Council last month.
Without honest political dialogue it will be difficult to overcome the present situation. Therefore our aim is to ... help the development of that political dialogue.
We will do it sooner rather than later.
We will continue to support the Palestinian Authority until the new government is formed and on that we are trying to find the necessary resources.
We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.
We would like to see humanitarian aid arriving without difficulty from the European Union ... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should be able to enter and play their role.
This report is not true. We are going to continue with the same strategy, the strategy of the air campaign,
We said very clearly that the withdrawal has to be total; it has to be the end of the occupation.
We think the Russians have an important role to play.