US will continue to spy on other nations: Barack Obama
The US President assures his German counter part of no harm to their bilateral relations.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-01-20 09:22 GMT
Berlin: The US will continue to spy on foreign governments, President Barack Obama has said even as he assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he would not allow the surveillance mechanism to harm their bilateral relations.
Seen as the first step to win back trust of its allies, Obama defended the controversial spying programme as necessary to safeguard the security of America and its allies, including Germany.
“Our intelligence agencies, like German intelligence agencies, and every intelligence agency out there, will continue to be interested in the government intentions of countries around the world. That’s not going to change,” Obama said in an interview to the German network ZDF.