Germany has received information that US intelligence may be spying on the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called President Barack Obama to protest, her spokesman said.
"The chancellor today telephoned President Obama" and "made clear that she unequivocally disapproves of such practices, should they be confirmed, and regards them as completely unacceptable," spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement released on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama sought to assure Mrs Merkel that the US is not monitoring her communications after the Chancellor raised the issue.
Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said that the allegations that they had intentionally tapped her phone were untrue.
"Today President Obama and Chancellor Merkel spoke by telephone regarding the allegations that the US National Security Agency intercepted the communications of the German chancellor. » | Josie Ensor, and Raf Sanchez in Washington | Wednesday, October 23, 2013
