20/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - While he was in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly, the EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, issued a statement on the news of the death of Simon Wiesenthal, who died at the age of 96. Mr Solana said: “We mourn today the passing of a special man and a great European. Simon Wiesenthal was both a victim and a witness of the Holocaust. His response to a crime of unparalleled proportions was not to seek revenge but to pursue justice. He dedicated his life to that cause with unyielding courage and determination. His lifetime's work has served as an inspiration to all of us who believe that peace must be built on justice, tolerance and human rights”. (After surviving the concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal had created, in Vienna, a Jewish Documentation Centre, in the pursuit, as he put it, to track down Nazi war criminals “not for vengeance, but for justice”.