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choosing Russia and Ukraine over the Balearic Islands. The worst part of it is that Baroness Ashton"s move offended the "big" European nations. French Defense Minister Herve Morin set the tone, berating the EU"s top diplomat for failing to attend the meeting: "Isn"t it rich that this morning, to display the ties between NATO and the EU, we have the NATO secretary general (Anders Fogh Rasmussen) here but not the high representative for the first meeting since the Lisbon treaty came into effect?"General discontent began to grow after this statement. Some of the ministers said in private that either the new European Union President Herman van Rompuy or Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, could have been sent to Moscow and Kiev. They said that her predecessor Javier Solana always managed to find space in his diary for the EU defense ministers" talks. She was also reminded for the fact that this was not the first time she had missed a defense meeting.