The report to be released Tuesday will fault Annan for failing to take aggressive action to deal with possible conflict of interest in the awarding of a U.N. oil-for-food contract to Cotecna Inspection S.A., which employed his son, Kojo, in Africa, the officials said
Volcker's committee of inquiry will also censure Annan for failing to detect shortcomings in the U.N. bureaucracy that allowed problems in the $64 billion humanitarian aid program to continue
While the new report will fault the secretary-general's overall management of the oil-for-food program, it will support statements by his chief of staff and spokesman as recently as Monday that "the secretary-general expects to be cleared of any wrongdoing."
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For those who are interested, the second part of an in depth look at the oil-for-food scandle will be shown on the National tonight.
IMO the first half, which was shown last night, was quite good.
