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Germany's Opposition Requests Meeting in Parliament Over Leaked Military Audio

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The biggest opposition faction of the German parliament, the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), requested to convene an extraordinary meeting of the parliament's defense committee over the publication of a high-ranking German military officers' conversation, the faction's secretary, Thorsten Frei, said.
"On behalf of my faction ... I ask to immediately convene a special meeting of the defense committee," Frei was quoted as saying in a letter to the president of the Bundestag, Barbel Bas, by German broadcaster NTV.
The faction also requested the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the meeting.
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