Out of all the Libya Contact Group representatives from 30 states and organisations that met in the Turkish capital Istanbul last Friday, July 15, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed the busiest, with one website describing her itinerary thus: "Secretary Clinton met with too many dignitaries to name. We see her here with several of her counterparts and Spain's Trinidad Jimenez. She gave a Press conference as well as a major address to the organisation of the Islamic Conference."
Apart from Clinton, two other outstanding women at the meeting were Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Trinidad Jimenez, and the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
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