– Indian Foreign Minister and the Ruling Party were Bribed: UN report

This Natwar guy seems to suggest that UN wants to malign Congress and Natwar??? Now what does UN need to do with either of these two entities? They have named him because he and Congress DID IT!!!! It is important that the media and the people demand an explanation.

Outraged by what he termed as “baseless and untrue” allegations in a UN report which named him as one of the beneficiaries in Iraqi oil sales in 2001 under the Oil-for-Food programme, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh today said this was part of the campaign to malign the Congress party and its senior leaders.

“I am deeply shocked and outraged by these allegations which are baseless and untrue,” Singh said in a statement from Frankfurt before leaving for Delhi at the end of his four-day visit to Moscow.

The minister said he has seen media reports which quotes the Volcker report on Iraq’s Oil-for-Food programme as having “listed my name as one of the beneficiaries along that of the Congress party, in its annexure