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 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.
Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.
I wish you every success in your new responsibilities, in which you can always count on the full support of the European Union.
We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.
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 will continue economic support for the Palestinian Authority. We want to see how the new government is formed. After that we will decide what to do, but we will never abandon the Palestinian people.
We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.
Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.
I think we need to give President Konare and the African Union all the support that they need. It is true that sometimes we promise things to the African Union and then we don't give what the promises are. We have to commit ourselves, within our capacities, of course.
We must find ways to support the Palestinian people.
NATO continues to support a political solution which brings an end to the violence in Kosovo,
in order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.
The French people have expressed their choice. They have ultimately preferred not to support the Treaty establishing the European Constitution. I evidently respect their choice, but I also regret it an equal measure of sincerity. Europe needs its people, but each one of us also needs her. Europe is, above all, a venture of hope.
What the European Union has decided is that the place where this has to be resolved is in the Security Council.