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The Oil-for-Food Scam: What Did Kofi Annan Know, and When Did He Know It? Claudia Rosett For years, the United Nations Oil-for-Food program was just one more blip on the multilateral landscape: a relief program for Iraq, a way to feed hungry children in a far-off land until the world had settled its quarrels with Saddam Hussein. Last May, after the fall of Saddam, the UN Security Council voted to lift sanctions on Iraq, end Oil-for-Food later in the year, and turn over any remaining business to the U.S.-led authority in Baghdad. On November 20, with some ceremony, UN Secretary-General...

In a very emotional 52 minute speech the President called on people to say a loud NO NICOSIA.- Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos called on the people of Cyprus to say a ''loud no'' in the referendum of April 24 to be held in the Greek Cypriot side, simultaneously with a referendum in the Turkish Cypriot side, on a Cyprus settlement plan proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. President Papadopoulos gave his position Wednesday night, in a live televised proclamation, during which he explained that the consequences of accepting the Annan plan would be ''heavier and more oppressive'' than those...

“Cover-up" may sound farfetched, given the number of hearings and investigations now zeroing in on the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal. The Iraq Governing Council began its own inquiry back in March. The U.S. Congress has scheduled three hearings this month, the first of them taking place today (Wednesday) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the U.N. itself, where more than 100 audits over the course of the seven-year program apparently managed to miss more than $10 billion in smuggling and graft, Secretary-General Kofi Annan finally gave in last month to demands for an independent inquiry, and is now convening...

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