"Italy's Foreign Ministry summoned US Ambassador to Italy, John Phillips, to request clarifications over rumors in the press that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and some of his closest advisors were subjected to wiretapping in 2011," the ministry said.
According to the statement, Phillips assured the ministry he would being the matter to the attention of US authorities.
In turn, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry Michele Valensise reaffirmed that Italy was expecting to receive "specific clarifications on the findings in relation to the 2011 events."
According to WikiLeaks, NSA had bugged meetings between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Berlusconi, as well as talks of key EU and Japanese trade ministers on "trade red-lines."
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit journalistic organization founded in Iceland in 2006 to disseminate documents, photos and video of political or social significance, according to the organization’s Facebook page. The website gained prominence when it publicized a trove of classified diplomatic cables between heads of state and government.
