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17Jul13

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Colombia seeks clarification from U.S. over alleged espionage

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Colombia will send a team of experts to the United States to seek clarification over alleged espionage against it, Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said Wednesday.

The delegation will work with U.S. authorities to clarify the reasons for the alleged illegal interception of information by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), she said.

"We will have a methodology to establish clarity, and they will give us more information on the scope of the information that has been collected by the United States."

At a meeting with U.S. ambassador Michael McKinley, Holguin expressed her government's discontent with the United States and demanded prompt clarification for the sake of bilateral relations.

Calling the revealed espionage acts disrespectful of national sovereignty and individual privacy, Holguin said a country's acts must be within a legal framework and must be based on mutual respect in any foreign relationship.

Brazilian newspaper O Globo last week revealed a series of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which showed evidence of U.S. spying on Latin American countries including Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

[Source: Xinhua, Bogota, 17Jul13]

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