My Way News - EU's Ashton to skip restarted Mideast peace talks
My Way News reports: "The European Union says it will not participate in the U.S.-backed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority due to start on Thursday in Washington. A spokesman for the bloc's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says she will be in Beijing meeting with Chinese leaders at that time. Spokesman Darren Ennis also said 'for the EU as a whole, the focus is on a successful outcome of the talks (and not) on the choreography or who goes to Washington.'"