At the European Council in Cologne we intend to appoint the future high representative for the common foreign and security policy.

Firstly, via the High Representative for the common foreign and security policy addressed to tomorrow's Madrid Summit.

This letter has been roundly criticised by the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

They include provisions for dealing with the new High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

In Vienna I hope, Mr President-in-Office, we will be appointing a high representative for the common foreign and security policy.

We have not managed to grasp just what is our scope for input to the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

We did, however, arrange a troika meeting with the Portuguese Presidency, President Barroso, the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and myself.

The next item is the statements by the High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, Mr Solana, the Council and the Commission on the situation in the Middle East.

High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana said: "I condemn in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist attacks throughout the city of Mumbai.

In addition to being Secretary-General of the Council, Mr Solana is also Secretary-General of the WEU, as well as High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

This week, I heard the advisor of the Council, the High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, and I hope that we will be able, at some stage, to help create for others the stability that we want for ourselves.

He or she would be accountable both to the High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, Mr Solana, and also to Commissioners Patten and Liikanen, and would be charged with developing a common defence and procurement plan.

This measure, combined with the appointment of a European High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, would begin to give the 15-nation European Union the means to coordinate military policies that now duplicate one another in many areas, increasing cost and diminishing effectiveness.

He also wants the strange new post of High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, which is developing into a European super-minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, but which cannot be called to account politically in this area, to be integrated into the European Commission's portfolio for external relations.