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"A U.N. General Assembly committee called for an end to excessive electronic surveillance.               The committee adopted the German and Brazilian-drafted resolution by consensus, and is expected to be voted on next month.               Brazil's Ambassador to the United Nations, Antonio Patriota:               (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANTONIO DE AGUIAR PATRIOTA, BRAZIL'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, SAYING:               \"Mr. Chair, through this resolution, the General Assembly establishes for the first time that human rights should prevail irrespective of the medium and therefore need to be protected both off-line and online. It also reiterates that human rights are universal.\"               The draft text does not name specific countries but North Korea's deputy U.N. envoy, Ri Tong-il, did mention names.               (SOUNDBITE) (English) RI TONG IL, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA'S DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, SAYING:               \"It is not a secret that since 2007 the United States has been operating the code-named PRISM massive surveillance program domestically and this created another condemnation already.\"               The draft resolution comes after U.S. contractor Edward Snowden released details of a global spying program by the U.S. National Security Agency."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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