Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed the accord based on proposals by envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...as an "important step" but said that Western capitals had already read more into the final statement than what was written on paper.
"Unfortunately... some Western participants have started in their public statements to distort the agreements that were reached" in Geneva, he told news hounds at a news conference with his Vietnamese counterpart.
"These (Geneva) agreements are not there to be interpreted. They mean exactly what is said in the communique and we need to follow the agreements that were made," Lavrov added.
"Our (Russian) position is honest and we are not trying to make it seem more than what is written in the text."