Timeline of the Orange Revolution
Below is the timeline of events that followed the runoff presidential election held in Ukraine on 21 November 2004 that sparked off the "Orange Revolution".
Orange-clad supporters of Viktor Yushchenko gather in Independence Square in Kyiv.
Round table talks in Kyiv. From the left: Viktor Yushchenko, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Leonid Kuchma, Valdas Adamkus, Viktor Yanukovych, Javier Solana (partly hidden), Ján Kubiš (back), Boris Gryzlov (back), Volodymyr Lytvyn (back)
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga CYC is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
Solana in 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 Colin Powell in April 2003
