UN British Bugging of UN, if True, Is Illegal

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday that alleged British bugging of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's office, if true, violated international treaties and should be stopped immediately.


"We are throwing down a red flag and saying, if this is true, then stop it," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters. "It is not good for the United Nations' work and it is illegal."


He said that "the secretariat routinely takes technical measures to guard against such invasions of privacy, and those efforts will now be intensified." He cited treaties on the inviolability of U.N. premises.


Eckhard was responding to comments by Clare Short, Britain's former international development secretary, who said that British intelligence agents spied on Annan ahead of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last March.

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[salin]

1. and somehow I would bet - that for the most part Americans

aren't even aware of the spying on the UN... let alone this story about spying on Annan... or the other story about spying on Hans Blix while he was in Iraq.

[HydroAddict]

2. Why the hell this gets so much press...

But win Bushco does it, it's ignored.

[Barrett808]

3. Ya think? "ooh, International law, let me get my lawyers" -- W n/t

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