DHAKA: Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has summoned the United States’ ambassador to Germany, John B. Emerson, to discuss information obtained by Berlin that the US may have monitored Angela Merkel’s mobile phone.

A German government spokesman said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.

The move comes a day after Merkel called president Barack Obama to demand immediate clarification and told him if such surveillance had taken place it amounted to a ‘grave breach of trust’.

BDST: 1618 HRS, OCT 24, 2013
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