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UN warned to get ready for sweeping reforms

By Mark Turner at the United Nations

Published: January 17 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 17 2005 02:00

The man appointed to oversee a management shake-up at the United Nations has warned that it must brace itself for wide-ranging reform amid criticism that extends beyond the ranks of the American right.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Mark Malloch Brown warned the UN that there could be worse to come and that its management would feel the consequences from an investigation into allegations of corruption in the "oil-for-food" programme, which the UN administered for Iraq.

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