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IN BRIEF
Putin opposes presidential
runoff in turbulent Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President
Vladimir Putin injected himself
directly into the election crisis in
the former Soviet republic Thursday,
strongly attacking the opposition’s
central demand for a new presiden
tial runoff.
Putin made his comments while
meeting with Ukrainian President
Leonid Kuchma at an airport outside
Moscow, as tens of thousands of op
position supporters waving Ukrain
ian flags and wearing orange arm
bands, sweaters and scarves rallied
for the 11th straight day in Kiev’s In
dependence Square.
Palestinians denounce
jailed leader's ambitions
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A day
after jailed uprising leader Marwan
Barghouti shocked his compatriots
by announcing he’ll run for presi
dent, many Palestinians denounced
him Thursday for endangering unity
and a smooth transition of power in
the post-Yasser Arafat era.
Barghouti’s last-minute decision to
enter the Jan. 9 election roiled what
was shaping up to be a rather staid
campaign to replace Arafat and creat
ed a strong challenge to interim
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Analysts say a Barghouti victory
could bode ill for peace prospects
with Israel.
— The Associated Press
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U.S. senator calls
for U.N. chief
officer to resign
Sen. Norm Coleman criticizes Kofi Annan and the
food-for-oil program; President Bush refuses to comment
BY EDITH M. LEDERER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — Three years
after winning the Nobel Peace Prize,
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is
the target of escalating attacks in the
United States, and a U.S. senator has
called for his resignation over a deep
ening corruption scandal in the U.N.
oil-for-food program in Iraq.
Russia, China, Britain, France,
Germany and dozens of other coun
tries have rallied to support the be
leaguered U.N. chief — but not the
United States.
President Bush twice on Thurs
day refused to say whether Annan
should resign and didn’t use the op
portunities to back him. Instead,
Bush demanded “a full and fair and
open accounting” of the oil-for-food
program, saying this was essential
for U.S. taxpayers to continue sup
porting the United Nations and “for
the integrity of the organization.”
The demand for Annan to step
down came from Sen. Norm Cole
man, a Minnesota Republican who is
leading one of five U.S. congressional
investigations into the oil-for-food
program. The program began in
1996 to help Iraqis cope with U.N.
sanctions imposed after Saddam
Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Two weeks ago, Coleman’s Per
manent Subcommittee on Investiga
tions said it had uncovered evidence
that Saddam’s government raised
more than $21.3 billion in illegal rev
enue by subverting U.N. sanctions
and the oil-for-food program. Cole
man wrote in Wednesday’s Wall
Street Journal that Annan should re
sign because “the most extensive
fraud in the history of the U.N. oc
curred on his watch.”
While several U.S. newspapers
and columnists also have called for
Annan to be replaced, there is no
such clamor in other U.N. member
states, and at U.N. headquarters the
secretary-general has been receiving
letters and phone calls of support.
In Europe and elsewhere, critics
and commentators have accused the
U.S. media and some American
politicians of exaggerating the oil-for
food scandal, pointing to the United
States’ permanent membership on
the Security Council, which author
ized the program, and the sanctions
committee that monitored it.
Annan’s mandate ends in De
cember 2006. By then, he will
have served 10 years at the helm
of the United Nations, and it will
be Asia’s turn to choose a new
secretary-general.
The United Nations rejected
Coleman’s call for Annan’s resigna
tion, saying no country has asked
him to step down, and more than
3,000 U.N. staff members have
signed a letter of support.
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