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William Safire: The UN kickback-for-food affair
William Safire NYT Tuesday, March 30, 2004
WASHINGTON Never has there been a financial rip-off of the magnitude of the UN oil-for-food scandal. At least $5 billion in kickbacks went from corrupt contractors - mainly French and Russian - into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and his thugs. Some went to pay off his protectors in foreign governments and media, and we may soon see how much stuck to the fingers of UN bureaucrats as well.
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UN Buerokraten, Franzosen und Russen - warum bin ich nicht ueberrascht


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Annan fires UN security co-ordinator
Senior official sacked, another chastized over bombing of Iraq headquarters



UNITED NATIONS (AP-CP) — Secretary General Kofi Annan fired one senior UN official and chastised his Canadian deputy today for failing to protect UN staff ahead of the Aug. 19 bombing of the organization's headquarters in Baghdad, which left 22 people dead, including two Canadians.

A third official was demoted.

Acting on the findings of a scathing report detailing mistakes made by several senior officials, Annan singled out Tun Myat of Myanmar, the UN security co-ordinator, who was asked to resign from the UN, and did so.
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Um mich nicht dem Vorwurf der Einseitigkeit auszusetzen:
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Homosexual rights resolution withdrawn at United Nations

By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

NEW YORK — The Brazilian government, bowing to economic and political pressure from the Islamic world, yesterday withdrew its effort to protect the civil rights of homosexuals.
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But the measure was vehemently opposed by the Vatican and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), both of which lobbied the 53 members of the Human Rights Commission to oppose the resolution.
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Washington has remained determinedly silent on the subject of same-sex unions in U.N. discussions in Geneva and New York. However, the Bush administration is trying to win support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.
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