Obama, Merkel agree to high-level talks on U.S. surveillance program


  • World
  • Thursday, 04 Jul 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany agreed on Wednesday to hold high-level bilateral talks between their security officials in coming days on U.S. surveillance activities and security issues, the White House said in a statement.

Obama and Merkel spoke by telephone in the wake of an uproar in the European Union about a report in a German magazine that Washington was spying on the EU.

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