Helsinki, 26/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - CFSP High Representative, Javier Solana, referred to the principles governing the new European security strategy, on Wednesday at the Finlandia Hall in Alvar Aalto, Helsinki where the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the current OSCE, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe took its first steps at the beginning of the 1970s based on the coordination between Europeans taking part in the Helsinki process. Solana also pointed out that it had been in Helsinki that the "Headline Goal" was launched for EU military capability and that the objective of obtaining 60,000 military personnel had been achieved, although, he admitted, further efforts were needed on a qualitative level. Solana added that the European already spent EUR 160 bn a year on defence but that these resources needed using wisely. He was very hopeful about the European defence agency and explained that in the next few months they would be called on to do more in Bosnia by assuming responsibility for peace keeping and subsequently taking over from NATO. "We also have a responsibility to ensure that EU enlargement does not create new dividing lines in Europe. Closer economic cooperation with our neighbours to the East will help to avoid this - but must be accompanied by determined efforts to develop democracy and good governance there and to end frozen and unresolved conflicts", he said, pointing out that he had requested Heikki Talvitie from Finland, the EU Representative to Georgia, to make recommendations for possible EU action in the region.