UNITED Nations officials would not be allowed to testify before US Congress hearings on the oil-for-food program in Iraq, the UN said in a letter released today.| "Nope. Nope. Can't do it." |
Mr Malloch Brown said UN officials would otherwise have to make themselves available to the legislatures of the UN's more than 190 member nations. Coleman is heading a US Senate panel looking into the scandal-plagued oil-for-food program and had wanted Dileep Nair, the head of the UN's internal watchdog, to testify. The letter, dated Monday, said Mr Nair could not testify at a hearing yesterday that saw complaints from senators about access to UN officials.