Translation of "secrétaire d'état aux affaires extérieures " (French → English) :

14. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the President of the Commission, the President and Government of Haiti, the UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Governments of the Member States.

– the High Representative should, at the same time, have the role of conducting the CFSP (initiative and execution), especially in terms of representing the Union in contacts with third parties and in international forums; here, he should also take on the role currently held by the President-in-Office of the Foreign Affairs Council (in principle, the foreign minister of the Member State holding the presidency). He should also have a representative role with regard to external action as a whole or areas of that action other than the CFSP, but in such cases he will be under the authority of the Commission President and will be subject to ...[+++]the decisions of the Commission as a whole for those other aspects of external action.

Last week, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr de Miguel told the House that Mr Solana would be visiting Greece in order to put pressure on the Greek Government to accept the Constantinople text, or rather the Ankara text, drafted by Great Britain, Turkey and the United States, a text which contests the territorial integrity of Greece so that the European army can use NATO infrastructures in order to promote the so-called common European defence and security policy.

The Secretary of State for European Affairs made a cryptic statement that this could well cost the Netherlands anything between 0 to 1 billion.

1. Welcomes the release of the MEP Olivier Dupuis and the other four European activists; draws attention to the role of the Italian government, and especially the Italian Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who went to Laos in person and managed to obtain their repatriation, and also stresses the efforts of the representatives of the EU institutions and the governments of the Member States and Russia and their interventions throughout the time these persons were under arrest,

It shall consist of the Secretary General, who shall have the chair, and of the Directors General of the Legal Service, Administration and Personnel, External Relations, Justice and Home Affairs and Joint Research Centre and of the Heads of the Internal Audit Service and the Commission Security Office.