French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday he had made clear in talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry that snooping on its allies was "unacceptable". In talks in Paris on Tuesday morning, "I said again to John Kerry what (French President) Francois Hollande told (US President) Barack Obama, that this kind of spying conducted on a large scale by the Americans on its allies is something that is unacceptable," Fabius said.
He said he urged Kerry to provide timely details on reports that the US National Security Agency had secretly monitored tens of millions of phone conversations within France. "John Kerry responded that it was a system inherited from previous administrations," Fabius told reporters after talks between Western and Arab nations on Syria in London.
"We want these practices to stop, and we want to be informed about everything that exists. "The fact that such practices have developed to this point between friends, allies, is unacceptable." The claims were based on leaks from fugitive US ex-security analyst Edward Snowden and published by French newspaper Le Monde and the German weekly Der Spiegel.
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