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EU foreign policy chief to chair first meeting of FMs in 2010

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British Baroness Catherine Ashton, the European Union's new foreign policy chief, will chair the first meeting of the EU foreign ministers in 2010, which will take place in Brussels on Monday.

British Baroness Catherine Ashton, the European Union's new foreign policy chief, will chair the first meeting of the EU foreign ministers in 2010, which will take place in Brussels on Monday.

The leaders of the EU's 27 countries elected Catherine Ashton as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy during a meeting in Brussels in November, 2009. Van Rompuy, Belgium's prime minister, was elected Permanent President of the European Council.

Both posts have been introduced by the EU reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty, which came into effect on December 1, 2009, after the long-delayed ratification by all 27 EU member countries.

Before the treaty came into effect, meetings of the EU foreign ministers had been chaired by the foreign minister of the country holding the EU rotating chair.

The 27 ministers will discuss the situation in Iran, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan during the meeting.

The situation in Haiti, where a devastating earthquake January 12 claimed more than 150,000 lives, as well as Ukraine's presidential elections, the first round of which took place on January 17, are also expected to be discussed.

BRUSSELS, January 25 (RIA Novosti)

 

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