[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 869 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 869

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that due to the 
   allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and abuse within the United 
    Nations oil-for-food program, Kofi Annan should resign from the 
  position of Secretary General of the United Nations to help restore 
  confidence that the investigations into those allegations are being 
                 fully and independently accomplished.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2004

  Mr. Wicker (for himself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Simpson, Mr. 
Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Otter, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Gillmor, 
 Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Tancredo, Mr. 
 Murphy, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Ryun of Kansas, 
 Mr. Taylor of Mississippi, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Sam Johnson of 
Texas, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Goode, Mr. Burns, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. McCotter, 
 Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
  Paul, Mr. Wamp, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Camp, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Sherwood, 
Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. 
Manzullo, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, Mr. 
  Pitts, Mr. Gingrey, Mr. Scott of Georgia, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Weldon of 
 Florida, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Pence, Mr. DeMint, 
   Mr. Cantor, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Aderholt, and Mr. Goodlatte) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                       on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that due to the 
   allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and abuse within the United 
    Nations oil-for-food program, Kofi Annan should resign from the 
  position of Secretary General of the United Nations to help restore 
  confidence that the investigations into those allegations are being 
                 fully and independently accomplished.

Whereas the United Nations has become the subject of the most extensive scandal 
        in the history of the organization;
Whereas the United Nations oil-for-food program has been the subject of four 
        investigations by the United States Congress, three Federal 
        investigations, and a commission of inquiry appointed by the United 
        Nations;
Whereas the Iraq Survey Group reported that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein 
        attempted to bribe members of the United Nations Security Council 
        through the oil-for-food program;
Whereas the Iraq Survey Group indicated that Saddam Hussein successfully bribed 
        the Executive Director of the United Nations Iraq Program, Benon Sevan, 
        who was personally appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi 
        Annan;
Whereas under the supervision of the United Nations, Saddam Hussein illicitly 
        accumulated more than $21,000,000,000 in contravention of the oil-for-
        food program and in violation of United Nations sanctions;
Whereas Kojo Annan, son of Secretary General Kofi Annan, has received payments 
        from a contractor responsible for monitoring goods arriving in Iraq 
        under the oil-for-food program;
Whereas the United Nations refuses to make public any of the 55 internal audits 
        of the oil-for-food program produced by the United Nations Office of 
        Internal Oversight;
Whereas the oil-for-food program, since inception, has been under the direction 
        and supervision of Secretary General Kofi Annan; and
Whereas it is crucial for the international community to have confidence that 
        operations under the authority of the United Nations are executed in a 
        responsible and credible manner: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
due to the allegations of fraud, mismanagement, and abuse within the 
United Nations oil-for-food program, Kofi Annan should resign from the 
position of Secretary General of the United Nations to help restore 
confidence that the investigations into those allegations are being 
fully and independently accomplished.
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