EU Foreign Affairs chief Ashton opens EU office in Benghazi

The European Union has opened an office in the Libyan city of Benghazi in order to help it carry out its role in the re-development of Libya. Catherine Ashton the EU’s top foreign Affairs head was in Benghazi this week and responded to a number of questions on the future of the European Union’s role in the country, a country which still has Col.Gaddafi as it’s leader, despite the coalition backed rebels being in control of much of the country. Benghazi, the centre of rebel power, is an important symbolic town in the conflict, as it was the treats to the civilian population there, that sparked EU military intervention