The United States Wednesday refused to support the call for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign.

“We support the Secretary General in his work. That was our position yesterday — it’s our position today,” State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli told a briefing in Washington.

An independent commission, headed by Paul Volcker, a former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, cleared Annan of wrongdoing in the U.N.’s corrupted Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. The inquiry found no evidence Annan influenced bidding for a contract to under the $67 billion program to a Swiss firm that employed Annan’s son, Kojo. (more…)

The report said the firm and Kojo Annan, a businessman in Nigeria, had both misled his father on his continued relationship with the firm.