1.   On the question of a separate European defence identity, some NATO members reportedly pressed for a greater security role for the nine-country Western European Union.

2.   The question of strengthening the defence identity of the Union will be decided at the final stage of the conference.

3.   There must be compromise in building a European defence identity, he said, organically-linked to and within NATO as much as possible.

4.   Solana recalled a NATO meeting in Berlin last month which developed the idea of a specific European defence identity within the Alliance.