Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has accused France of eavesdropping on her in the 1990s, reports BBC News.
"I will very much remember when I was at the United Nations, the French ambassador coming up to me saying, 'Why did you say that to somebody, about why do you want women in the government?'", Albright said.
"And I said, 'Excuse me?' They had an intercept," she said at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
Ms Albright's remarks came as a growing number of world leaders accuse the US of spying on them. Revelations in the global news media are based on a cache of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence contractor.
"This is not a surprise to people," she said. "Countries spy on each other."
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