UN &#39;did nothing&#39; while Saddam smuggled oil
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The man leading an independent investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nationsâ oil-for-food programme said most of the money illegally obtained by Saddam Hussein came from smuggling, much of which the UN Security Council knew about but did
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The United States and its military allies on Thursday challenged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s statement that last year&#39;s invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that violated
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said this week that the US war in Iraq is illegal and questioned whether the country could hold credible
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Faced with UN chief Kofi Annan's charge that the war in Iraq was &quot;illegal&quot; under the world body's charter, US President George W. Bush strongly implied that the invasion enjoyed UN support.
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The United Nations said on Monday that,  as far as it knew, Iran had not diverted any nuclear materials  to a weapons program -- a verdict diplomats said undermined the  U.S. case for U.N. sanctions on Tehran.
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United Nations Secretary, General Kofi Annan, said in an interview with the BBC, that the US led invasion of Iraq was illegal. When asked whether he thought the invasion of Iraq was illegal, Annan replied &quot;Yes, if you wish.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has revealed that he believes the war on Iraq was &quot;illegal&quot;. Mr Annan said the war was &quot;not in conformity&quot; with the UN Security Council or with the UN Charter.
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Key states who joined the US-led invasion of Iraq have rejected claims by the United Nations Secretary-General that the war was illegal.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on rejected on September 16 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s criticism of the Iraq war as illegal, saying the Iraq war was &quot;entirely valid.
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ELECTION: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained that the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country&#39;s January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help with the vital balloting.
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WASHINGTON: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan threw the diplomatic world into a tizzy on Wednesday by bluntly declaring that the US decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 was illegal.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - The United Nations has   failed to take on board some of the key recommendations of an   investigation into corruption in its oil-for-food program in   Iraq, an investigator told Reuters on Thursday.
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The U.N.-ordered probe into oil-for-food corruption is being seriously hampered by an elaborate system of ghost firms set up around the world to cover the tracks of bribes to Saddam Hussein as he cheated the &#36;60 billion program, a top investigator said.
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The United States and its coalition partners on Thursday defended the war in Iraq after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asserted it was &quot;illegal&quot; because it didn&#39;t have Security Council support.
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President George W Bush delivered an unapologetic defence of his decision to invade Iraq, telling the United Nations yesterday that it &quot;helped to deliver the Iraqi people from an outlaw dictator&quot;.
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President Bush and his vice president conceded Thursday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, even as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue &#151; whether the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 22 -- A U.N.-appointed investigator probing corruption in the world body's oil-for-food program in Iraq published today a list of all 4,734 companies that traded with Saddam Hussein's government through the arrangement. The 300-page list provides the most comprehensive public account to date of Iraq's business dealings under the former program, under which Iraq was allowed to sell oil to purchase humanitarian supplies.