BRUSSELS - The European Union's humanitarian aid Commissioner Emma Bonino has received apologies from the Afghan authorities following her arrest earlier on Monday, a European Commission spokesman said. "This incident does seem to be working itself out. There's a meeting in Kabul with the foreign affairs ministry and she has received apologies and has been able to continue her mission," the spokesman told the Commission's daily news briefing. Afghanistan's purist Islamic Taleban militia earlier on Monday arrested, then released, Bonino along with her delegation, aid workers and journalists after they took pictures in a women's hospital in Kabul. The Commission spokesman said the EU executive had since been in touch with members of Bonino's delegation, but had not yet managed to talk to the Commissioner herself. The Commission was deferring further comment until it had formed a clear picture of what had taken place, he said. "It might just be a confusion, it might be a banal incident that has nothing to do wi

th the person of Mrs Bonino," the spokesman said. He said the incident could have been provoked by television camaramen.