India's foreign minister has rejected the main opposition party's demand that he resign and denied that he was a beneficiary of the UN oil-for-food programme for Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a report said.
A yearlong investigation of the Iraq oil-for-food programme will fault almost every branch of the United Nations for widespread failure in the $64 billion operation and recommend urgent reform, according to a document released on Tuesday.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has carried out the first sacking of one of his top officials over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, a UN spokesman says.