Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to write memoirs.

The former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to write memoirs, reports Associated Press. The contract to produce the books Annan on Wednesday, April 8, made with publisher Penguin Press.

In the memoirs, as expected, Annan, who as secretary general from 1997 to 2006, will present the work at the head of the UN and meeting with world leaders, took place during this time. Annan will pay special attention to contacts with former Presidents of the United States and Russia - George Bush Jr. and Vladimir Putin, the ex-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, as well as with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and fighter against apartheid, Nelson Mandela.

The goal is that the Annan raskazhet and loud about the corruption scandals surrounding the UN Oil-for-food program. The program, conducted from 1996 to 2003, allowed Iraq, against whom sanctions were imposed, to sell oil produced abroad, but on the proceeds to buy humanitarian goods.
An investigation by the Special Commission, headed by Paul Volcker, found that company-paid members of the UN Government Hussein large monetary awards, to be procured any goods it from them.

Heads of UN, described in the Volcker committee report, for the fight against corruption has not taken the necessary steps. Annan, after the publication of the report committee, admitted his responsibility for the irregularities in the implementation of the "Oil for Food.
Date memoirs Annan and the amount of fees has not yet been disclosed.