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| Volcker: Nope, no documents from us |
| 2004-11-17 |
| In response to the Coleman/Levin complaint letter of last week: "Annan turned over all oil-for-food documentation to Volcker," U.N. spokesman, Fred Eckhard, told The New York Sun. Since Mr. Volcker now controls all related documents, he was the one answering the senators' letter, he added. Ah, Kofi, always with someone to hide behind. Mr. Volcker wrote yesterday that after the middle of next year, when his team completes "a definitive report" on the U.N.'s management of the program, "we fully anticipate" that "substantially all" relevant documents will be released. This, he added, would provide "a basis for congressional and public review of our conclusions." "Once we get our But for now, he wrote, his team needs to keep a delicate balance between "essential and desirable transparency and disclosure" and a "degree of confidentiality and simple fairness." "You ain't getting bupkus." He therefore politely declined to guarantee the release of documentation specifically requested by the senators, which relates to the British-based shipping inspection company that was a U.N. contractor, Lloyd's Register. According Mr. Volcker, those documents are related to "a sensitive area involving allegations of bribery, and undue influence." "Anything interesting, you definitely can't get." Lloyd's Register was replaced by the U.N. in February 1999 by a competing Swiss-based shipping inspection company, Cotecna, which had business relations with Mr. Annan's son, Kojo. Ding, ding, ding! |
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