UN: We will discuss Wikileaks publications with US

For the first time since they were published on Monday, a UN spokesman has addressed the Wikileaks documents leaks which claimed that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave an order to follow UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and said that the UN would take up the issue with "our US counterparts on various levels".

"The UN by its very nature is a transparent organization that makes a great deal of information about its activities available to the public and member states," Farhan Haq, acting deputy spokesman for Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General told the British Telegraph newspaper. He added that "We don't have any judgment on the authenticity of the document, but I do want to read a little passage from 1946 convention on the privileges and immunities of the United Nations." (Ynet)