Obama for the first time after the spy scandal called Merkel
Leader Barack Obama has held its 1st telephone conversation with Chancellor Angela Merkel after a scandal with surveillance, informs on Wednesday Agency.
According to the Deputy Advisor to Obama's state security Ben Rhodes, the leaders discussed the interaction between countries, as well as the situation in Iran and Ukraine. Details of the talk are not given.
in July in Germany broke out two spy scandal, where he was involved American intelligence agencies. July 2 was announced about the arrest of an employee of the Federal intelligence service of Germany, who is suspected in the compilation and communication of information the American secret services, and among them about the activities of the parliamentary Commission of inquiry work in Germany Agency for state security of the USA. The ninth of July printed edition announced the 2nd alleged case of espionage German citizen in favor of special services of North America. According to the newspaper, is suspected by the employee of the Ministry of defense of Germany.
amid spy scandal Ministry, the Federal Chancellor of Germany limited interaction German foreign intelligence (BND) and the Ministry of defense with the us partners to a minimum. For example, the German government ordered to leave the country representative of the intelligence services of the USA at the American Embassy in Germany. It is assumed that he will leave the country before the end of the week.