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
in order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.
I had a meeting of the North Atlantic Council this morning, and all the 19 ayes were absolutely like one country, ... Every country that belongs to NATO is behind the decision we have taken.
The position of Russia is the following: Why don't we have an extraordinary meeting (at the UN), debate the situation then go back to Vienna, continue discussions there and wait for the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board meetings in March.
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.
I think the position now is what we have said, ...which is to have a decision to call for an extraordinary meeting in Vienna of the (IAEA) agency and then to refer the dossier to the Security Council.
It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.
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.
In forcing people to leave, the Bosnian Serb authorities have behaved abominably, and the actions of the Federation authorities have been far from reassuring,
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.
They have to think, they have to return to negotiating ? the temperature has to be lowered.
I want to tell them that they have a place, without any doubt, among the family of the European nations.
Once again, the European Union recalls that it is absolutely against terror and that these actions kill the hopes of peace.
The continuation of violence will affect the fledging stability of the region as a powerful deterrent to direct foreign aid,
I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic, will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.