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Head of UN agency combating drugs rebuked over firearm

By Mark Turner at the United Nations and Jimmy Burns in London

Published: March 21 2006 22:03 | Last updated: March 21 2006 22:03

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has earned a rebuke from the UN after failing to tell Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general, that he accepted a free handgun from an Austrian arms manufacturer.

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