UNITED NATIONS, May 3 (UPI) -- A U.N. spokesman says about 80 percent of senior officials required to fill out financial disclosure forms at the United Nations have done so.
The spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York Wednesday that Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown is now contacting those who have not yet completed the forms.
Those required under the new rules and regulations are directors and all staff in procurement, people with access to information regarding accounts or financial information and anyone else that each department's executive office deems appropriate.
Asked whether U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has filled out the disclosure form yet, the spokesman said he had not, but would do so, even though he was not technically not required to as a staff member.
The spokesman said Malloch Brown had met the requirement.
The forms affect about 125 assistant secretary-generals and undersecretary-generals.
Dujarric said an effort is underway to expand financial disclosure to include directors and anyone with access to sensitive financial information, covering some 1,300 people.
The forms will be handled by the U.N.'s new Ethics Office whose special advisor, Tunku Abdul Aziz, will brief reporters next week.
