U.N. Prober Blocks Senate Request for Testimony
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 16 -- A United Nations-appointed investigator probing corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food program has rejected a request by a Senate committee to strip U.N. officials of their immunity so they can testify before Congress. The U.N. official agreed to release, at a time of his choosing, internal audits of the program and other confidential documents sought by Congress.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal for international troops to protect U.N. monitors during Iraq's elections next year is unlikely to get a reply from Europe before the U.S. elections, analysts and diplomats said Friday.
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NEW YORK -- The UN oil-for-food program chief, under scrutiny for alleged corruption and mismanagement, blocked a proposed audit of his office around the same time he is accused of soliciting lucrative oil deals from Iraq, investigators said. A UN auditing team, which was severely understaffed, said running the $64 billion oil-for-food program was ''a high-risk activity" and a priority ...
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Russia is refusing to provide witnesses or information to the independent investigation into alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, an official close to the investigation said Wednesday.
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The US senator leading an investigation into the United Nationsâ oil-for-food programme in Iraq today called on secretary-general Kofi Annan to resign.
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WASHINGTON  - A US senator heading a panel investigating the UN&#39;s scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program called for UN chief Kofi Annan&#39;s resignation in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
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A private intelligence firm hired by the United Nations to look into corruption in the oil-for-food program provided valuable leads to U.N. investigators, but they were ignored, the company's director says.
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A US senator who in December called for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to resign raised doubts about an audit of the oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Bloomberg - June 27 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the U.S. and its European allies to delay pursuit of tougher sanctions on Iran while UN inspectors try to break the stalemate over the Islamic government&#39;s nuclear work.
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A House committee chairman threatened to subpoena the president of the government's legal aid service for the poor after the official declined to attend a hearing Tuesday on allegations the program lost sight of its anti-poverty mission.
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The US Senate's Republican leader blamed obstruction by opposition Democrats for a delay in passing a US-India nuclear energy deal, which has now been put off until after the November midterm elections.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer's former communications director refused on Monday to obey a subpoena for testimony and documents sought by a state Senate committee investigating an alleged plot to smear the state's top Republican.
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A Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is cautioning Republicans against blocking a vote Monday on a resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq
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Democratic lawmakers on Friday  requested an investigation into why the State Department  delayed word of sanctions on two Indian companies for  Iran-related dealings until after the U.S. House of  Representatives approved a nuclear agreement with New Delhi.
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Indonesia has barred a U.S. congressman who has been a critic of Jakarta's policies in Papua from visiting the area, but has denied the move is to cover up alleged human rights abuses in the remote region.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer's former communications director refused Monday to obey a subpoena for testimony and documents sought by a state Senate committee investigating allegations of a plot to smear the state's top Republican.
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Allegations that the United States had  access to wiretaps on the telephone of the head of the U.N.  nuclear watchdog have damaged Washington's campaign to block  his re-election, diplomats and analysts say.