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France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report

Xinhua, June 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius summoned the U.S. ambassador to France Wednesday to explain a WikiLeaks document concerning the United States' spying on three French leaders, including President Francois Hollande, news channel BFMTV reported.

Fabius is scheduled to meet Jane Hartley later in the day to ask for an explanation on "Espionage Elysee," a collection of top-secret intelligence reports and technical documents from the NSA concerning intelligence interceptions of the communications of high-level officials, including Hollande, ex-presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, between at least 2006 and 2012.

The documents are intelligence summaries of conversations between French government officials on some of the most pressing issues facing France and the international community, including a dispute between the French and U.S. governments over U.S. spying on France.

"The French people have a right to know that their elected government is subject to hostile surveillance from a supposed ally," said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, adding that "French readers can expect more timely and important revelations in the near future." Endi