Reply #10: The foreign press is picking up on the story now also [View All]

[Freddie Stubbs]

Annan 'disappointed' in non-disclosure of son's payments

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) said he was disappointed in new revelations about payments to his son from a firm that had a contract under the UN's oil-for-food programme in Iraq (news - web sites).

The announcement came hours after a columnist in a leading US newspaper, the New York Times, called on Annan to resign over the mounting Iraqi oil scandal.

Annan's spokesman on Friday admitted that the UN chief's son Kojo kept getting payments from Geneva-based Cotecna until February 2004, years later than had been earlier reported, after a US newspaper broke the story last week.

"Naturally, I was very disappointed and surprised," Annan told journalists at UN headquarters in New York, adding that he had not known the payments had continued so long.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041129/wl_mideast_afp/un_annan_041129230207