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November 14, 2007

Senators applaud Secretary Rice’s oversight and reform agenda at U.N.

Today, U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (OK), Jon Kyl (AZ), Sam Brownback (KS), Norm Coleman (MN), David Vitter, (LA), Jim DeMint (SC), and John Ensign (WY) sent a letter to Secretary Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, praising her leadership in seeking greater transparency, accountability, and oversight at the United Nations. The Secretary has established the U.N. Transparency and Accountability Initiative which seeks to shine light on the over $5 billion contribution made annually to the U.N. by the U.S. taxpayer with little or no information on how most of it is spent. Secretary Rice has also spearheaded the U.S. investigation into the U.N. Funds and Programs that uncovered a widely used practice at the U.N. where U.S. contributions are used to prop up dictators and regimes of terror through cash deposits and illicit military-grade technology transfers from U.N. programs such as the $5 billion U.N. Development Program.

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