The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty?

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The UN Oil-for-Food Program: Who Is Guilty? (February 9, 2006)

Following the Volcker Committee's Investigation of the UN-administered Oil-for-Food Programme, former UN Under Secretary General Brian Urquhart offers a comprehensive review of the UN Oil-for-Food "scandal." The bulk of illicit transactions during the sanctions regime occurred outside the Oil-for-Food Programme, while those within the program were mainly ignored by the Security Council members, namely the US and the UK, who designed and oversaw the program. As Urquhart points out, misinformed attacks on the UN from US neoconservatives and a complicit media serve to promote narrow nationalist interests while overshadowing legitimate discussions of UN reform and the genuine need for collective action. (New York Review of Books)

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/oilforfood/2006/0209oilforfood.htm

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1. That certainly disappeared from the radar, didn't it? nt

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