奧巴馬將在柏林演講，推動世界無核化
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to lay out his vision for advancing toward a world free of nuclear weapons during a speech Wednesday at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Hours before the planned address, Mr. Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks that covered, among other things, U.S. Internet surveillance.
In a joint news conference afterwards, Mrs. Merkel said that while "enemies and opponents" can use the Internet to threaten democracy, she had stressed to the U.S president that there should be "balance and proportionality" between the need to monitor threats and to preserve a "liberal order."
Mr. Obama, for his part, called the U.S. Internet surveillance program "circumscribed" and "narrow," insisting that U.S. intelligence agencies are not "rifling through ordinary emails" of "German citizens or American citizens or anyone else" and that the Internet and telephone surveillance programs are under federal court supervision.
He said his administration has struck "the appropriate balance" between protecting the American people and preserving "civil liberty and privacy." He also reiterated that the surveillance programs have "saved lives."美國總統奧巴馬星期三即將在具有歷史意義的柏林勃蘭登堡門發表演講，提出爭取實現世界無核化的設想。
在計劃開始演講的幾個小時前，奧巴馬會晤了德國總理默克爾，會談的各項議題包括美國的互聯網監控項目問題。
在會晤後的聯合記者會上，默克爾說，雖然“敵人和對手”也會利用互聯網威脅民主，但是她對美國總統奧巴馬強調說，在監視威脅與維護“自由秩序”之間，應當保持“平衡與比例適度”。
奧巴馬則說，美國的互聯網監視項目是“有限度的”和“狹窄的”。他堅持說，美國情報機構不會查看德國、美國或任何國家普通公民的電郵，網絡與電話監控項目是在聯邦法庭監督之下進行的。
他說，他的政府在保護美國人民與維持“民權自由和隱私”之間找到了“適度的平衡”。他還重申，監控項目“挽救了生命”。
