Summary
Your Thursday editorial "Annan and the truth - sort of" relies on a distorted chronology and selective reporting to argue that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan took responsibility for failings identified by the Independent Inquiry Committee on the oil-for-food scandal only after its chairman, Paul Volcker, took him to task in a public interview this week.
In fact, when the committee's latest report was released in March, Mr. Annan immediately accepted its criticism that he had not adequately investigated the United Nations' procurement of Cotecna, a company that had employed his son.See the full content of this document
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Housekeeping at the U.N.
The secretary-general's reference to "exoneration" related to the co...
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