UN Continues Ban on Testifying Before US Congress

From Jurist Paper Chase, 2/16/2005:

"The UN upheld its ban on its officials testifying in front
of US Congress in a letter from Mark Malloch Brown,
chief of staff for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to
Senate investigating subcommittee chair Senator Norm
Coleman (R-MN) [official website] that was released
Wednesday. The letter is in response Coleman's
congressional probe [hearing agenda] into the UN
oil-for-food program. The Senate subcommittee had
wanted diplomatic immunity lifted for key directors and
access to various UN officials. The letter instead suggested
the Senate create a briefing schedule [UN News report]
that UN officials could attend. Reuters has more."