Payments to his son surprising, Annan says
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UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday that he was ''very disappointed and surprised&quot; that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq's oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous corruption investigations.
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: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said yesterday he was âdisappointedâ his son did not tell him the full story of his ties to a firm involved in the UN oil-for-food programme, now under investigation.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday 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&#39;s top diplomat.
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Africa News, UNITED NATIONS, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and China have rallied around Kofi Annan, but US President George W. Bush did not explicitly endorse the UN chief, under fire over suspected corruption in the now-defunct Iraq humanitarian
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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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Urging a matching "unprecedented global response", UN Secretary General Kofi Annan ( news - web sites ) said that half a billion dollars in aid had been promised or delivered for relief operations after the ...
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13 September 2004 - As Secretary-General Kofi Annan offered his condolences today to the families of the victims of Hurricane Ivan, which is wreaking a devastating toll across the Caribbean region, United Nations humanitarian agencies are stepping up
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Swiss company Cotecna Inspection SA, which is under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq, on Thursday denied any wrongdoing in its payments to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s son.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Just a few months ago, Kofi Annan was one of the most respected UN chiefs in history, poised to lead the organization through a sweeping agenda of reform.
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KOFI ANNAN has had better weeks. On Monday, the UN secretary general woke up to a Wall Street Journal column by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, publisher of the influential InstaPundit
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan has come under fire over revelations that his son was paid by a Swiss company that had a contract under the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday that the United Nations had received pledges of $500 million to pay for emergency assistance to victims of the south Asia earthquake and tsunami.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program had &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over the United Nations and made 2004 an especially
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said the United Nations will use &#36;30 million in revenue from the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq to pay the initial bill for the independent investigation of corruption allegations in the program.
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During a year-end news conference on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted that allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program have &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over that operation and the UN itself.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan said on Monday he was "disappointed" his son did
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan received an unusual standing ovation in the 191-nation General Assembly on Wednesday following calls for his resignation from conservative U.S. lawmakers.