EU foreign policy head visits ousted Egyptian president

The European Union’s top diplomat has had two hours of talks with Egypt’s ousted president, who has been held incommunicado since his overthrow in a July 3 military coup, the EU said today.

Catherine Ashton is the first person outside Egypt’s military or security services who is reported to have met Mohammed Morsi since he was toppled. News of the meeting was posted in the Twitter account of the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy Service led by Ashton.