Javier Solana Europe Quotations

(In) the European Union we feel a profound respect yesterday, today and tomorrow and we never had wanted in any case to offend their feelings.

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.

I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.

Regarding relations with the European Union, all the declarations of the election campaign have been positive.

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.

We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.

Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.

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.

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.

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.

Madrid will be remembered as the time when North America and Europe came together to shape the course of a new century, ... United by common purpose and shared values, the new alliance stands ready to shape a brighter, more secure future.

Now we have the most important security presence in the Middle East ever taken by the European Union ... We are entering also the security aspect.

Europe will stay engaged in all fields, economically, politically and in the security field.

I think there is no divide today between the U.S. and Europe as far as the main objectives of Iraq,

The European Union is here to help. But we are not here in a mediating function.

The accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland ... is perhaps the clearest demonstration of the fact that Europe is growing closer together,

There is no crisis at all between the European Union and Israel. If there was a crisis, we would not be here.

I wish you every success in your new responsibilities, in which you can always count on the full support of the European Union.

Images of burned hopes and destroyed villages recall scenes we had hoped we would never see again, ... Milosevic must know there is no place for his policy in Europe on the eve of the 21st century.

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.

I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.

It will mean a better deal for European taxpayers, and for their armed forces. And it is a vital step for ensuring that our defense industries remain globally competitive.

It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow. The taxpayers in the European Union, members of the Parliament of the European Union, will not be in a position to sustain that type of political activity.

What the European Union has decided is that the place where this has to be resolved is in the Security Council.

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.