UN envoy admits contacts with oil-for-food accused: FT

[emad]

UN envoy admits contacts with oil-for-food accused
By Mark Turner at the United Nations
Published: April 19 2005 01:05 | Last updated: April 19 2005 01:05

Maurice Strong, the United Nation's Korea envoy and an adviser to secretary-general Kofi Annan, on Monday admitted to a relationship with Tongsun Park, a South Korean lobbyist accused of attempting to influence UN officials over Iraq's scandal-ridden oil-for-food programme.

However, Mr Strong described on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website as “the most influential Canadian on the planet” whose “tireless networking skills give him access to the corridors of power around the world” insisted he had no involvement or connection with the UN's oil-for-food programme, or any of its other Iraq activities.

He added: “I cannot recall a single instance in which I had any contact or discussion on the program with any of the officials responsible .”

But he also said: “I have continued to maintain a relationship with Mr Park. As a native of North Korea he had advised me on North Korean issues in my role as UN envoy”.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/2e4f0060-b064-11d9-ab98-00000e2511c8.html

[tanyev]

1. Korea?

So was Rev. Moon getting any of this action? He's got his fingers in almost everything else.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Shhhh! Hush Now!!!

Since we've indicted a US Texas Oil Man, we're not talking about this anymore.