(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) US President Barack Obama has called Japan's leader to express regret over recent WikiLeaks allegations that the US had spied on senior Japanese officials.
Obama told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he thought the trouble the revelations caused Abe and his government was regrettable, a Japanese government spokesman said.
Japanese officials faced questioning from the media and in parliament after WikiLeaks posted online what appeared to be five US National Security Agency reports on Japanese positions on international trade and climate change. They date from 2007 to 2009. WikiLeaks also posted what it says was an NSA list of 35 Japanese targets for telephone intercepts.
Abe told Obama that the allegations could undermine trust between the countries, and reiterated his request for an investigation of the matter.
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