Annan Says His Son&#39;s Payments Created a &#39;Perception Problem&#39;
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The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said yesterday that he had not known that his son had continued receiving payments until February of this year from a Swiss inspection company
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s declaration that the invasion of Iraq contravened the UN charter greatly annoyed the countries participating in the war, especially the US.
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The prime minister has thrown his weight behind beleaguered secretary general of the United Nations as Kofi Annan faces stringent criticism over the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan has become the target of escalating attacks in the United States over suspected corruption in the body&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food humanitarian programme for Iraq.
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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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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday 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's top diplomat. To meet criticism in the Republican-dominated US Congress that the United Nations was withholding documents, Annan said a UN probe led by Paul Volcker, the former ...
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was at pains to avoid controversy during a visit to Britain, one of the chief proponents of a war in Iraq that Annan recently described as illegal.
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The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he first admitted.
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WASHINGTON - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday he was &quot;disappointed&quot; to learn his son Kojo was getting secret payments from a company under investigation for its role in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the investigation into abuses of the oil-for-food program in Iraq has &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over the United Nations.
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Thousands of UN staff as well as African nations rallied on Wednesday around UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, wounded by US allegations that he allowed corruption in the now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food program.
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There is growing fear among United Nations officials that Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organisation&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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Description: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan upset the Bush Administration earlier this year when he called the Iraq War illegal and the attack on Fallujah dangerous.
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UNITED NATIONS UN chief Kofi Annan says he&#39;s &quot;disappointed&quot; to learn his son was getting 30-thousand dollars a year from a company with an oil-for-food contract in Iraq.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who faces criticism over corruption in the agency&#39;s defunct oil-for-food program, enjoyed a standing ovation Wednesday from General Assembly members.
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The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan got monthly payments more than four years longer than was previously known from a Swiss firm that won a lucrative contract under the scandal-ridden U.N. oil-for-food program, the United Nations said on Friday.
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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.