Kofi Annan Acts On Oil For Food

Reaffirming his pledge to act resolutely on any findings of staff misconduct in connection with the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced that he had initiated disciplinary proceedings against officials involved in the operation and was taking broader management measures in response to the release earlier in the day of a report by an independent panel looking into the management of the now-defunct relief effort.

"I made clear from the outset that no one found to have broken any laws would be shielded from prosecution. I stand by that pledge," the Secretary-General said in a statement released within hours after Paul Volcker, the head of by the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) and former US Federal Reserve Board Chairman, presented Mr. Annan with the panel's interim report. The Secretary-General immediately forwarded the 240-page document to the Security Council.

"Should any findings of the Inquiry give rise to criminal charges, the United Nations will cooperate with national law enforcement authorities pursuing those charges, and in the interests of justice I will waive the diplomatic immunity of the staff member concerned," Mr. Annan said in the statement, which was read to the press by his Chief of Staff, Mark Malloch Brown.

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