Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said he was ''sorry'' Monday the European Union had not forged a common front on boycotting the Durban Review conference on Racism in Geneva.
Interview by the Il Gornale daily, Frattini said the failure to ''speak with one voice'' was ''a very serious mistake''.
Italy led the way in boycotting the conference after Israel and the US pulled out because of a keynote declaration considered antisemitic but other countries like Britain went ahead in attending the meeting.
Frattini, who had worked hard to muster a joint EU front, called it ''one of the biggest disappointments of my international experience''.
