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wannago
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bignate
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Contractor Now Denies He Talked With Annan on Oil-for-Food Bid
By WARREN HOGE and JUDITH MILLER
Published: June 17, 2005
UNITED NATIONS, June 16 - The contractor executive in the United Nations oil-for-food program who claimed in a 1998 memo that Secretary General Kofi Annan supported an award to the company where his son Kojo worked now denies ever talking about the bid with Mr. Annan.
In a statement issued by his lawyers, the executive, Michael R. Wilson, said Wednesday that he "never met or had any discussion with the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, on the issue of the bid for the U.N. contract," not "during the bidding process or at any time prior to the award of the contract."
The Dec. 4, 1998, memo from Mr. Wilson, made public on Tuesday, said that in late November 1998 he had conversations with "the S.G. and his entourage" and was told that his company, Cotecna Inspection Services, "could count on their support."
Mr. Annan, who denies having known about Cotecna's bid, said Thursday that he would leave the matter to Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who heads a United Nations-appointed panel investigating the program, "to look into it and get to the bottom of the allegations."
He urged reporters "to resist the temptation to substitute yourself for the Volcker commission."
In a report on March 29, the Volcker panel concluded that Mr. Annan had not influenced the awarding of the contract. On Tuesday, the committee said it was "urgently reviewing" the case in light of the December 1998 memo.
Congressional committees investigating the program have been exploring whether Kojo Annan and Mr. Wilson have tried to coordinate their accounts of what they told United Nations officials about Cotecna's bid for the $10-million-a-year contract.
This is not the first time that Mr. Wilson has recanted a statement involving the secretary general and his son.
The March report of the Volcker committee records an interview with Mr. Wilson last January in which he recounted a conversation with Kofi Annan in November 1998, when Mr. Annan's son was still a consultant for the company, about a potential conflict of interest in Cotecna's bid.
The Volcker report said that 15 to 20 minutes after the interview, Mr. Wilson called the investigator to change the conversation date to after Kojo Annan had left Cotecna. |
I agree with the idea that we shouldn't draw conclusions before the commission completes its investigation....
Still, it all seems a bit fishy.... |
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funplanet
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Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| he's a politician, ain't he? there, does that answer your question? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not a loopy leftie but my centrist views are still left of yours - I started a thread way back when on how boring and uninspiring he is. Because it's true. |
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wannago
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not a loopy leftie but my centrist views are still left of yours - I started a thread way back when on how boring and uninspiring he is. Because it's true. |
Not only is he boring and uninspiring, he's evidently a liar. It's amazing how many people are willing to give him a pass. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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They give him a pass because it means to either choose Kofi or prove the US right about something very serious.
Saying Kofi is wrong is the beginning to a solid argument for what the US did in Iraq.
You "loopie lefties" just don't want to go there, so they look the other way. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| Saying Kofi is wrong is the beginning to a solid argument for what the US did in Iraq. |
Kofi might be a corrupt U.N. official who's been caught with his hand in the cookie jar but I don't see how that is connected with Iraq. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| wannago wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| I'm not a loopy leftie but my centrist views are still left of yours - I started a thread way back when on how boring and uninspiring he is. Because it's true. |
Not only is he boring and uninspiring, he's evidently a liar. |
The word "evidently" implies evidence ... do you have any, besides a guy who has recanted what he said, and "evidently" has made such claims in the past and recanted them? |
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wannago
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
| wannago wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| I'm not a loopy leftie but my centrist views are still left of yours - I started a thread way back when on how boring and uninspiring he is. Because it's true. |
Not only is he boring and uninspiring, he's evidently a liar. |
The word "evidently" implies evidence ... do you have any, besides a guy who has recanted what he said, and "evidently" has made such claims in the past and recanted them? |
Oh, I get it...if someone writes something that strongly suggests that UN Chief Thief has something to do with the investigation and then that someone recants that it ever happened.....then, by god, it didn't happen 'cause it's Kofi, don't you know, and he's above reproach. Try reading the articles bob, I'm not the only one questioning this. |
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Nowhere Man
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| wannago wrote: |
| The Bobster wrote: |
| wannago wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| I'm not a loopy leftie but my centrist views are still left of yours - I started a thread way back when on how boring and uninspiring he is. Because it's true. |
Not only is he boring and uninspiring, he's evidently a liar. |
The word "evidently" implies evidence ... do you have any, besides a guy who has recanted what he said, and "evidently" has made such claims in the past and recanted them? |
Oh, I get it...if someone writes something that strongly suggests that UN Chief Thief has something to do with the investigation and then that someone recants that it ever happened.....then, by god, it didn't happen 'cause it's Kofi, don't you know, and he's above reproach. Try reading the articles bob, I'm not the only one questioning this. |
I was talking about evidence. He said something, then he took it back. Apparently, there's a pattern of this. It's old news and you want to make it new - that's because you disapprove of the UN and so pushing this corruption thing seems the best way to go.
Don't act like you are all about what is just and what is fair. You have a larger motive, as do most conservatives who are pushing this thing. So, why not just go with that? Just stay on your main beam that the UN is not good for America instead of all this garbage about corruption, which is really the kind of thing that is just another day's work for thousands of lobbyists on K St and Pennsylvania Avenue.
You guys seem so tiresome and predictable sometimes ... |
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