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Article: Mr. Foreign Policy.(appointment of Javier Solana as EU's chief of foreign affairs and security policy)(Cover Story)
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- July 1, 1999
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EU leaders choose Javier Solana as their foreign policy point man.
It was a double triumph for NATO Secretary General Javier Solana: in the space of just hours, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had capitulated to alliance demands over Kosovo, and the European Union leaders had chosen the fifty-six-year-old Spanish Socialist as the EU's first chief of foreign affairs and security policy.
However, after the EU's announcement, Solana made it clear to reporters in Brussels that he was still entirely focused on the job at hand and would remain so until he took up his new post.
"At this very moment," he said, "my unique concern to which I am ...