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Article: Cook brings in experts at `stuffy' FO FOREIGN OFFICE
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 1998
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STAFF FROM charities such as Amnesty International and Oxfam are
to be drafted in to breathe new life into the Foreign Office in
response to the Sierra Leone affair.
As Sir Thomas Legg publishes his report on the scandal today, the
Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, will announce sweeping changes to his
department.
Mr Cook asked Sir Thomas, a former civil servant, to find out
whether officials colluded with a British firm of mercenaries,
Sandline International, in shipping arms to Sierra Leone's exiled
president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. President Kabbah had Britain's
support, but his regime was covered by a United Nations arms embargo.
Foreign Office officials and the British High Commissioner to ...