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To: Stan who wrote (1959)	10/4/2006 8:29:20 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) of 20106

Kofi does not have to show how much he got from oil for food...... Annan's financial form to be secret The Washington Times ^ \| 4 OCTOBER 2006 \| Betsy Pisik washingtontimes.com NEW YORK -- U.N. officials said yesterday that they will not publicly release a financial disclosure form filed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last month -- 10 months after he ordered all senior U.N. officials to file the forms. A spokesman said Mr. Annan submitted the questionnaire -- under a policy implemented in response to international outrage over U.N. involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal -- on Sept. 22. "The secretary-general has filed the forms," Stephane Dujarric confirmed yesterday. But, he said, "We will not be making it public." John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, did not return a call asking about that decision, but other critics of the world body argued that the disclosure form should be made public. "Kofi Annan has not gone far enough. He should make the financial disclosure publicly available for outside scrutiny," said Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation. "The culture of secrecy remains intact in the upper echelon of the United Nations." Mr. Annan implemented the disclosure-form policy as one of several moves to reform the institution in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal. Massive fraud was uncovered in a $64 billion program run by the United Nations that allowed Saddam Hussein's Iraq to sell a limited amount of oil. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ....

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