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UN to debate on Volcker report findings
2005-12-20
Much to the discomfiture of India and other countries the United Nations General Assembly will debate the Paul Volcker Committee report. Sources here said India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Nirupam Sen had tried his best to block the UN discussion, as it would become a major embarrassment for the ruling Congress party and would provide more fuel to the Opposition here. The report has already jinxed the political career of former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh.

Of all the 191 country members of the UN, it is Costa Rica that forced the UN General Assembly to take on its agenda “Follow-up to the recommendations of the independent inquiry committee into the UN oil-for-food programme.” At the Assembly’s general committee, which is like the business advisory committee of Parliament, Sen fought hard to amend language of the Costa Rica’s resolution by pressing that the discussion should be to reinforce measures for administrative management to rectify internal oversights. A report says India, however, could not oppose the Costa Rican demand in the general committee because no other country, among the 21 on the committee, was against the idea that the Assembly should discuss the Volcker findings.
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