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Bugging of the United Nations by the US Called "Illegal"
The United Nations said Thursday that alleged British bugging of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's office is illegal if proved true. . . . It was the world body's first reaction to allegations by a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet that Britain spied on Annan in the run-up to the U.S.-led Iraq war. . . . "We would be disappointed if this were true," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said. "Such activities would undermine the integrity and confidential nature of diplomatic exchanges. Those who speak to the secretary-general are entitled to assume that their exchanges are confidential." . . . Clare Short, who resigned as Britain's international development secretary shortly after last year's campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, said in a BBC interview that British intelligence agents spied on Annan ahead of the Iraqi invasion in March 2003. . . . Blair refused to say whether the allegation was true but called Short "deeply irresponsible."

posted by Lorenzo 6:02 PM