Snowden met with German lawmaker World November 1, 2013 - 10:59AM Munich: German Green Party lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele met Edward Snowden in Moscow on Thursday to discuss the possibility of the US fugitive testifying in Germany as new revelations of spying by the National Security Agency strained relations between the two countries. Mr Snowden handed Mr Stroebele a letter to the German government, the parliament and the federal attorney general, details of which the lawmaker will reveal at a press conference in Berlin on Friday, Mr Stroebele said on his website. The NSA leaker indicated his willingness in principle to help the German probe, he said. The visit took place a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel dispatched a team to the White House to seek a new intelligence pact with the US following leaks that her mobile phone may have been tapped. Mr Stroebele travelled with two German reporters for the three-hour meeting, in which he proposed the possibility of safe passage to Berlin as well as the possibility of Snowden testifying in Moscow, broadcaster ARD reported. "He clearly indicated that he knows very much, and that he's prepared to travel to Germany to testify as long as the NSA and its head, Keith Alexander, block clarification," Mr Stroebele said on ARD television. But the circumstances must be resolved. Ms Merkel's top foreign-policy adviser, Christoph Heusgen, and her intelligence coordinator, Guenter Heiss, met with US officials including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to try to "rebuild trust," the chancellery said on October 30. The sides failed to resolve their differences as the US defended its intelligence-gathering as similar to practices applied by other countries. Steffen Seibert, Ms Merkel's spokesman, didn't immediately respond to a text message seeking comment. Bloomberg