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Germany, Brazil draft anti-spy resolution

Malaysia summons US, Australia envoys over alleged surveillance

Agencies
Germany and Brazil have presented a draft resolution to a UN general assembly committee that calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection and other gross invasions of privacy.
The draft resolution, which both Germany and Brazil made public on Friday, does not name any specific countries, although UN diplomats said it was clearly
aimed at the US, which has been embarrassed by revelations of a massive international surveillance programme from a former US contractor.
Meanwhile, as a row over a vast US-led surveillance network deepened in Asia, Malaysia summoned the heads of the US and Australian missions in protest at spying allegations, its foreign minister said yesterday.
The dispute erupted in the region this
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week following a story in the Sydney Morning Herald, which reported a top-secret map leaked by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden that showed 90 US surveillance facilities at diplomatic missions worldwide -- including in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.
The German-Brazilian draft would have the 193-nation assembly declare that it is "deeply concerned at human rights violations and abuses that may result from the conduct of any surveillance of communications, including extraterritorial surveillance of communications".
It would also call on UN member states "to take measures to put an end to violations of these rights and to create the conditions to prevent such violations, including by ensuring that relevant national legislation complies with their obligations under international human rights law".
The resolution will likely undergo changes as it is debated in the general assembly's third committee, which focuses on human rights. It is expected to be put to a vote in the committee this month and then again in the general assembly next month, diplomats said.
Several diplomats said they would be surprised if the resolution did not receive the support of an overwhelming majority of UN memberstates.
The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have both condemned the widespread snooping by the US National Security Agency. Charges that the NSA accessed tens of thousands of French phone records and monitored Merkel's mobile phone have caused outrage in Europe and recently, the row spilled over to Asia.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said his country summoned the US and Australian mission heads on Friday to "hand over a protest note in response to the alleged spying activities carried out by the two embassies in Kuala Lumpur".
The US was represented by its deputy mission chief Lee McClenny, as the ambassador was out of town, the minister said in a statement, without giving details of what transpired.
Anifah on Friday also met his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop on the sidelines of a regional meeting in Perth, expressing "deep concern of such reports (of alleged Australian spying activities) which have caused considerable anger
amongst the Malaysian public".
US Secretary of State John Kerry this week admitted US spying has sometimes gone too far. US intelligence chiefs have said these reports are based on a misinterpretation of an NSA slide leaked to the media by Snowden.
Rather than siphoning off the records of tens of millions of calls in Europe, as the slide seems to suggest, they argue that the data was in many cases gathered and shared by European agencies.
Indonesia has also summoned both its Australian and US ambassadors, while China has called for "a clarification" from both sides.
Washington has been seeking to improve ties in Asia in recent years to counter growing Chinese dominance.
General assembly resolutions are nonbinding, unlike resolutions of the 15-nation security council. But assembly resolutions that enjoy broad international support can carry significant moral and political weight.
The resolution would urge states “to establish independent national oversight mechanisms capable of ensuring transparency and accountability of state surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data".