Annan the playa!
The United States Wednesday refused to support the call for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign.
“We support the Secretary General in his work. That was our position yesterday — it’s our position today,” State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told a briefing in Washington.
An independent commission, headed by Paul Volcker, a former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, cleared Annan of wrongdoing in the U.N.’s corrupted Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. The inquiry found no evidence Annan influenced bidding for a contract to under the $67 billion program to a Swiss firm that employed Annan’s son, Kojo. (more…)
The report said the firm and Kojo Annan, a businessman in Nigeria, had both misled his father on his continued relationship with the firm.
Another article mentioned that the EU has also thrown their support behind Annan.
Personally, I think that if these two world bodies did not support Annan, he just may spill the beans that suggest that they have benefited from this program as well.
Just a passing thought.
