Leading article: The UN should be reformed - not punished
5th Sep 2005, 16:34 GMT
As expected, the latest report into the Iraqi oil-for-food programme by Paul Volcker makes uncomfortable reading for the United Nations and its leadership. Benon Sevan, the former head of the programme, is accused by the internal UN report of receiving cash in return for allocating Iraq oil contracts in the mid-1990s. Tellingly, Mr Sevan did not hang around at the UN's New York headquarters for the report's publication, choosing instead to decamp to his native Cyprus.
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