German Foreign Ministry presses US ambassador to clear up new report on alleged US espionnage
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Germany's Foreign Ministry says a senior official has called the U.S. ambassador to press for Washington to clear up allegations that the country's foreign minister was a target of eavesdropping.
Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said that Stephan Steinlein, a deputy foreign minister, spoke with Ambassador John B. Emerson on Tuesday — the day after WikiLeaks published a document it claimed was a summary of a 2005 conversation Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had following a trip to the U.S.
Schaefer said Wednesday that Steinlein pushed for Germany to be given "the necessary clarification and explanation of this and all other cases that are still open."
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Three weeks ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff met with Emerson after a previous WikiLeaks report on alleged spying.