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18 June 2012updated 26 Sep 2015 6:32pm

Cathy Ashton struggles to identify Serbian President

She demanded an aide accompany her as she didn't "know what he looks like"

By Caroline Crampton

See what happened when Baroness Ashton, the EU Foreign Minister, greeted the new Serbian President on his first trip to Brussels. Her heartfelt plea to an aide of “Robert, someone’s got to come with me, because I don’t know what he looks like” as she marches purposefully down the corridor is the kind of dialogue we expect from Iannucci, really…

 

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