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No recall of U.N. chief oil-food meeting
UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan does not recall a 1998 meeting in which an executive reportedly claims he was assured of an Iraq oil-for-food contract.
The "I can't recall" defense. Can't be charged with lying about a bad memory, someone might come up with real evidence to prove otherwise if you say "I wasn't there"
The chief spokesman at U.N. World Headquarters in New York Tuesday also said records do not reflect such an encounter and neither does a "trip coordinator" who attended the Franco-African summit in Paris Annan was attending at the time.
Fancy that.
Coincidentally, Annan was in Paris Tuesday.
The Independent Inquiry Committee into the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program said earlier in the day it was "urgently reviewing newly disclosed information concerning possible links between ... Annan and representatives of Cotecna Inspection Services."
"Crap, how did we miss shredding that document?"
The Swiss contractor bid for and won contracts under the oil-for-food program while the secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan, was a consultant in 1998.
The statement followed a report in Tuesday's New York Times saying a memo written by a Cotecna executive discussing efforts to win the contract said he met with Annan and his "entourage" and the executive was told, "We could count on their support."
Posted by: Steve 2005-06-14
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