WALL ST JOURNAL

THE REAL WORLD
La République des Bananes
Kofi Annan tries to explain away France and Russia's Oil for Food wrongdoing.
By Claudia Rosette
October 20, 2004
Kofi
Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, finds it
"inconceivable" that Russia, France or China might have been influenced
in Security Council debates by Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food business
and bribes. "These are very serious and important governments," Mr.
Annan told Britain's ITV News Sunday. "You are not dealing with banana
republics."

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