UN&#39;s Kofi Annan Under Fire for Oil-for-Food Scandal
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Description: A US senator is calling for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Annan is being accused of fraud and lack of oversight in the Iraq oil-for-food program.
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Investigators probing alleged corruption at the United Nations oil-for-food program are scrutinizing thousands of pages of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's documents, including e-mail and phone records, to determine whether he exerted influence in securing a contract for a Swiss company that employed his son.
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The chairman of a House subcommittee investigating the United Nations&#39; oil-for-food program in Iraq said in a statement yesterday that Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s son received reimbursements
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United Nations (UN) personnel will prepare &quot;the first motion of non-confidence in the organization&#39;s history&quot; against UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has faced a series of scandals.
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Africa News, UNITED NATIONS, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and China have rallied around Kofi Annan, but US President George W. Bush did not explicitly endorse the UN chief, under fire over suspected corruption in the now-defunct Iraq humanitarian
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan rejected on Tuesday calls by some US congressmen for his resignation over an alleged corruption scandal surrounding the UN-run Iraqi oil-for-food program.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted that the UN oil-for-food scandal had &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over the United Nations, and made 2004 an especially troubled year, however, he played down the question of resigning.
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Republican Senator Norm Coleman calls on UN head Kofi Annan to quit over the oil-for-food scandal.
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TONY BLAIR threw his weight behind Kofi Annan yesterday amid a growing clamour in the United States for the United Nations Secretary-General to resign over the Oil-for-Food scandal.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan said on Monday that resignations of several senior  officials gave him a chance to reshuffle his team, under fire  in Washington because of the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.
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Washington&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations has urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to promptly release all information concerning the scandal-ridden Iraq oil-for-food program.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday he was &quot;disappointed&quot; his son did not tell him the full story of his ties to a firm involved in the UN oil-for-food program, now under investigation.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world&#39;s top diplomat.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan will discipline the former director of the oil-for-food  program for Iraq and another official named in a probe in the  operation, his chief of staff said on Thursday.
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Already embattled with his ties to the Iraqi Oil for Food scandal, and what some term as the 'Food for Sex' scandal, Kofi Annan has dodged the latest bullet. Well, dodged only in the sense that specific allegations against him was removed at the last minute before passing.    The UN staff union passed a resolution sharply critical of the world body's senior management but expressed support for beleaguered Secretary General Kofi Annan.    An earlier draft of the resolution had strongly worded language about no confidence in senior staff of the United Nations, which has been buffeted by scandals over the past few months.
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The whiff of scandal has been swirling around the UN for months. But now Kofi Annan himself, the man handpicked by the Americans to lead the organisation seven years ago, is on the ropes.
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U.N. diplomats say they are concerned that calls for Secretary-General Kofi Annan's resignation and allegations of widespread corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq could derail plans for a sweeping reform of the United Nations.