(From L to R) U.S. Congress member Gregory Meeks, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy speak to the media at the Foreign Ministry on November 25, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The two American officials are in Berlin in an effort to mend relations between the two countries that have been under strain since revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) had eavesdropped on the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel over a multi-year period.
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