Reply #10: U.N. Spying Dubbed 'Illegal' - CBS [View All]

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The United Nations said Thursday that alleged British spying on Secretary-General Kofi Annan's office, if true, is illegal and must be stopped.

It was the world body's first official reaction to the charge by Clare Short, a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet, that Britain spied on Annan in the run-up to last year's Iraq war, when Washington and London tried unsuccessfully to get U.N. authorization to attack Saddam Hussein.

Short said she had read transcripts of Annan's conversations.

"The U.K. in this time was also getting, spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on," she said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/03/iraq/main542516.shtml