`Let oil-for-food funds be with UN`

  • 21/03/2003

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

As the US-led attack on Iraq entered the second day, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has suggested major changes in the oil-for-food programme asking the Security Council to allow the world body to completely take it over as Baghdad would not be able to run it. Annan, in a letter to the Council, asked that the UN be allowed to spend the "oil-for-food" funds on both Iraqis inside and those who flee the country, set priorities for the items to be purchased and enter into contracts, renegotiate contracts and be given flexibility to enable it to meet any contingency.