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Germany calls in UK ambassador over spy claims
Source: The Guardian
Germany calls in UK ambassador over spy claims
Philip Oltermann in Berlin, Julian Borger and Nicholas Watt
The Guardian, Tuesday 5 November 2013 18.55 GMT
The British ambassador in Berlin was called in for a meeting at the German foreign ministry on Tuesday to explain allegations that Britain had been using its embassy to carry out covert electronic surveillance on Angela Merkel's government.
The meeting marked the latest fallout from the revelations of US and British espionage leaked by the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, and followed a report in the Independent about a covert listening post at the British embassy on Wilhelmstrasse, which the paper claimed to be based in part on the Snowden files.
If the report is confirmed, it could worsen British-German relations, which are already strained by a growing German sense that it has been marginalised by a global electronic espionage network led by the US and UK and confined to English-speaking states.
In a statement, the German foreign office said the head of its Europe division "had asked for a statement in response to the current reports in the British media and pointed out that intercepting communication from within diplomatic buildings represented a violation of international law".
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Philip Oltermann in Berlin, Julian Borger and Nicholas Watt
The Guardian, Tuesday 5 November 2013 18.55 GMT
The British ambassador in Berlin was called in for a meeting at the German foreign ministry on Tuesday to explain allegations that Britain had been using its embassy to carry out covert electronic surveillance on Angela Merkel's government.
The meeting marked the latest fallout from the revelations of US and British espionage leaked by the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, and followed a report in the Independent about a covert listening post at the British embassy on Wilhelmstrasse, which the paper claimed to be based in part on the Snowden files.
If the report is confirmed, it could worsen British-German relations, which are already strained by a growing German sense that it has been marginalised by a global electronic espionage network led by the US and UK and confined to English-speaking states.
In a statement, the German foreign office said the head of its Europe division "had asked for a statement in response to the current reports in the British media and pointed out that intercepting communication from within diplomatic buildings represented a violation of international law".
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/05/germany-summons-uk-ambassador-spy-claims-berlin
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