30/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Ashton will not attend Friends of Syria meeting. The EU high representative, Catherine Ashton, will not be present at the Friends of Syria meeting on 1 April in Istanbul, her spokesman, Michael Mann, announced on Friday 30 March. A high representative of the European External Action Service (EEAS) will, however, be present, he added. Mann also said Ashton was very pleased that the regime had apparently decided to follow Kofi Annan's plan, but the main thing was...