Javier Solana Quotes
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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.
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What the European Union has decided is that the place where this has to be resolved is in the Security Council.
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As soon as Gen. Clark has confirmed this withdrawal has begun, I intend to instruct him to suspend NATO air operations.
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No alternative is open but to take military action.
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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.
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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.
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This is going to be a long process. It is going to be a process with tensions and complications that will make everybody sometimes have to make painful sacrifices and painful engagements and commitments.
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I have been working very hard with your leaders and they have been working very hard to reach an agreement, ... grand government coalition.
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We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.
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Russia has its heart divided between its Slav soul and its disgust for Milosevic's behavior.
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As far as we are concerned, ... we have finalized all the planning process and we are ready to act. I think that is clear enough.
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This is the last chance, and I would like to make a call for negotiations in good will to solve this tragedy.
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Acting under the authority granted me by the North Atlantic Council, I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign, which I suspended on June 10.
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The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.
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The peace agreement must be seen as a matter of urgency.
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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.
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The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire.
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The wealth of agreements we will be signing together on September 5 bears witness to the increasing levels of practical cooperation.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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These (election) results may confront us with an entirely new situation which will need to be analyzed.
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Russia has its heart divided between its Slav soul and its disgust for (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic's behavior.
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NATO is resolved to persevere until the violence in Kosovo has ended and a political solution has been reached.
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It's not in the mind of anyone at this point in time, the use of military action, no. I hope very much that ... we will find a peaceful solution, a diplomatic solution.
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No, what we are doing today is a reflection on what may happen if at the end of the day what is going (on) now in the (U.N.) Security Council does fail.