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Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (born July 14, 1942 in Madrid) is a Spanish physicist, politician and diplomat.
He is the former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and also the former European Union foreign policy chief.
Solana was studying in both the United Kingdom and the United States before returning to Spain with Nicolás Cabrera, and becoming a professor of solid state physics in the Complutense University.
Having already joined the banned PSOE left-wing party in 1964, he became one of its leaders when it became legal in 1977. He became a Cabinet Minister, serving first as Minister for Culture and party spokesman, then Minister for Education, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, before being made NATO boss in December 1995, just as the Dayton agreement saw the IFOR NATO peacekeeping mission enter the former Yugoslavia. He was also involved in the Kosovo bombings, and the negotiations that led to an eventual peace.
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Solana with Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, 1999
Solana meets with Secretary of Defense William Cohen at the Pentagon on 15 March 1999
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Solana at the EU-Russia summit in Rome, 2003
Solana with Hassan Rouhani, 2004
Round table talks with Ukrainian and foreign representatives during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, on 1 December 2004
Ribbon bar of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise, Grand Cross
Ribbon bar of the Order of Charles III, Grand Cross.
ESP Isabella Catholic Order GC
Order of the Golden Fleece ribbon bar
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