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(回答先: 英国が国連総長をスパイ、会話録読んだ元閣僚 ［日本経済新聞］【スパイの対象は相手の方（笑）】 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2004 年 2 月 26 日 20:21:04)
UN calls British spying on Annan illegal
Thursday 26 February 2004, 19:30 Makka Time, 16:30 GMT
The United Nations has termed as illegal Britain's spying on its chief Kofi Annan in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
"This is something which is not entirely surprising because we always have suspected that," said Andreas Nicklisch, deputy director of the UN's office in Brussels.
"It's illegal of course, but it's also unnecessary because we work in complete transparency and openness," he said.
The UN official was reacting to former minister Clare Short's revelation that Britain conducted spying operations on United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the run-up to last year's war on Iraq.
UK Prime Mininster Tony Blair declined to address those claims on Thursday, but said that Short was undermining British security.
"I'm not going to comment on their operations... That should not be taken as any indication about the truth of any particular accusations," Blair told a news conference
"The fact that those allegations were made, I think, is deeply irresponsible."
Dropped charges
The claim comes a day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government dropped charges against a translator accused of leaking a top-secret US memo seeking London's help in spying on United Nations members in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Asked whether British spies had been told to carry out operations within the United Nations, Short replied: "Yes, absolutely."
The ex-aid minister, who resigned after the war but was in government during the period when London and Washington sought UN authorisation for military action, said Annan's office had been specifically targeted.
"I read some of the transcripts of the accounts of his conversations," she told BBC Radio.
On Wednesday, government prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to prove that 29-year-old translator Katharine Gun broke the Official Secrets Act, although she freely admitted she had leaked a secret document which she said revealed a US plot to spy on UN missions.
Sensitive
Blair's opponents said they believed the government's top lawyer, the Attorney-General, killed the case for fear that sensitive questions about the legality of the Iraq war would have been asked.
"There must be a question as to whether this was a political decision," Conservative foreign affairs spokesman Michael Ancram said. He has tabled questions demanding to know what part Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had played.
Gun, an ex-employee of Britain's global surveillance centre GCHQ, said she "exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government, who attempted to subvert our own security services".
The Observer newspaper quoted the leaked e-mail memo as saying Washington wanted Britain's help to bug the offices of delegates from the Security Council's "swing nations" - Chile, Mexico, Cameroon, Angola, Guinea and Pakistan.
"Enormous pressure was brought to bear," Short said. "The US was pressing Chile and Mexico... What is remarkable is that these countries didn't break."
Blair and President George W Bush eventually waged war without a specific UN mandate.
Earlier this month, Mexican officials asked the United States and Britain to respond to reports they also spied on the Mexican mission at the United Nations.
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