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Ashton's spokesman said the UN had told her to stay away (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Ashton under fire for not going to Haiti

by Honor Mahony, Brussels,

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has come under fire from centre-right and Green politicians in the European Parliament for not visiting the earthquake-devastated Haiti.

The head of the centre-right group in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, said that the fact that Mrs Ashton was not present while her US counterpart Hillary Clinton travelled to the Caribbean island over the weekend was "regrettable."

"Just about everybody was in Haiti at the moment when these people a...

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Ashton's spokesman said the UN had told her to stay away (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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