Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, will continue to press for results.

Javier Solana, the EU s high representative for foreign policy, symbolizes the role that Spaniards are playing in building Europe s international identity.

The Permanent Representative of Luxembourg will shortly make a statement on behalf of the European Union.

The EU s high representative would straddle the European Commission and the European Council to look after foreign affairs and security, and the European Parliament would have more power.

In 2003, following the start of the Iraq war, Europe embraced a strategy prepared by Javier Solana, then the European Union s High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Working under the authority of the High Representative on Foreign Policy, who under the terms of the new reform treaty will also become a Vice President of the European Commission, this post would reinforce synergies within the EU.

However, we would like to underscore some of the points made by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg speaking on behalf of the European Union.

But most attention has focused on the EU s three top positions the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, and the High Representative for external affairs.

The representative of Canada as well as the observers for Luxembourg (on behalf of the European Union) and Switzerland addressed questions to the Special Representative, to which he responded.

The Union strongly supports the efforts of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in association with the European Union's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to find an acceptable agreement to rebuild international confidence in Iran's intentions.

Greece fully associates itself with the statement to be made later in the debate by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.

In order to help resolve this problem, the Office of the High Representative recommended that a working group responsible for the implementation of EU recommendations should be established.

Mr. Burian (Slovakia) Slovakia fully associates itself with the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.

Mr. Burian (Slovakia) Slovakia fully associates itself with the statement delivered by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.

On 5 October 2006, Javier Solana, the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, ruled out the possibility of replacing the Russian peacekeepers with the EU force.

The Union s capacity as a global actor will be enhanced by merging the High Representative with the Commissioner for External Relations and establishing a single diplomatic service.

Mr. Motoc (Romania) Allow me to say first that, as an acceding country to the European Union, Romania aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly on behalf of the Union by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom.

It ended when the highest EU authority, the European Council, officially recognized in late July that Greece does need a reduction in its debt obligations.

Unlike the EU accession candidates of the 1990 s, the states of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus have little incentive or capacity to adopt the Union s body of law, the acquis communautaire, and move up the value chain.

I would like underline at the outset that Denmark associates itself with the statement to be delivered later by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.

Mr. De La Sablière (France) (spoke in French) France associates itself with the statement to be made later by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union.

Mr. De La Sablière (France) (spoke in French) The Permanent Representative of Luxembourg will shortly make a statement on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union and I associate myself with that statement in advance.

Mr. İlkin (Turkey) Turkey has already aligned itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom on behalf of the European Union.

The degeneration of the OHR's influence coincided with the withdrawal of the US military and the hollowing out of Eufor, which now has little in the way of operational capacity.

We associate ourselves with the statement to be made shortly by Ambassador Jean Marc Hoscheit, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg, on behalf of the European Union. I would nevertheless like to make the following points.

They are, as listed in Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the Court of Auditors.

EUFOR works in unison with the HR EUSR, European Union Police Mission, the European Union Monitoring Mission and the European Commission's assistance programmes to support both the stabilization and association process and mission implementation plan of the Office of the High Representative.

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As Romania aligns itself with the statement to be made later by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union, I shall confine myself to only few brief comments of a complementary nature.

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The European Union, now through High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, has always been a key actor in the negotiations between Iran and the P5 1.

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union and with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Estonia on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, States which are eligible for election to a non permanent seat on the Security Council.

Would the European Union survive? The answer depends on what one means by the EU.

(e) Consider the need for further review of the international arrangement, in order that it continue to be dynamic and adapt to evolving conditions, and consider ways of helping member States to participate actively in such a review.

The European Union will then follow with a mission of its own, and we will support the EU in this endeavor.

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