Annan agrees to extend Oil-for-Food committee to follow-up on findings

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has written to Paul Volcker, chair of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) into the scandal-ridden Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, to agree to Volcker's request to extend the Commission's follow-up operations until the end of March 2006.

According to a UN spokesman, the extension is exclusively for the purpose of assisting national authorities who wish to follow up on the findings included in the Commission's reports.