London [UK], April 20: At a hearing before the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on April 18 (US time), Jedidiah Royal, Permanent Deputy Assistant to the US Secretary of Defense in charge of security in the Indo-Pacific, affirmed. The latest leak of classified documents will not change the US strategic deployment in the region. This statement was in response to reports that US intelligence had eavesdropped on conversations of national security officials of South Korea, a key US ally in the region, according to Stars and Stripes newspaper . The response of the Seoul government is unknown, but other "objects" of wiretapping have made official statements.
Yesterday, Reuters quoted UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric as saying: "The United Nations has officially expressed concern about recent reports showing that exchanges of the secretary-general and other senior UN officials have turned negative. become the object of surveillance and interference by the US government".
According to Dujarric, the UN asserts that such actions are inconsistent with the US obligations under the UN Charter and the UN Convention on Privileges and Immunities.
The official UN response came after a series of articles citing leaked Pentagon documents showing that Washington was closely monitoring communications between Secretary General Guterres and his aides. Last week, the BBC reported that the US felt Mr Guterres appeared to be in Russia's interest in mediating the grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine. The US side argues that Guterres still wants to move forward with the deal even if it means meeting Moscow's interests.
On the same day, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused the Pentagon of wiretapping the Mexican government based on leaked documents leaked online. The Mexican leader said he would advance the military's information security efforts to protect national security. "We are now preparing to protect the information of the Navy and the Department of Defense, because we are the target of a reconnaissance operation conducted by the Pentagon," Lopez Obrador said.
The White House has not commented on the statements of the Mexican president and UN officials. A Pentagon spokesman said the Department of Defense has a strong defensive cooperative relationship with the Mexican Army and Navy, and stressed that both sides meet common challenges while respecting sovereignty. and each other's foreign policy agenda.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper