联合国秘书长安南日前公开表示，他对自己的儿子涉嫌伊拉克“石油换食品”丑闻一事“深感失望与惊讶”。据悉，安南的儿子科乔·安南曾在参与伊拉克“石油换食品”计划的瑞士科特克纳公司实习，但持续收取薪资到今年2月。外电报道如下：Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was "very disappointed and surprised" that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq's oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous corruption¹ investigations².

Annan told reporters that he had been working on the understanding that payments to his son, Kojo Annan, from the Swiss-based firm Cotecna Inspection³ S.A. stopped in 1998 "and I had not expected that the relationship continued."

On the understanding that是一个固定词组，表示“如果，以……为前提条件”，例如：Participants of this action will only be accepted on the understanding that they are aware of these risks and wish to participate of their own free will.（只有那些了解自己所冒的风险、并出于自愿的参与者才能够参加此次行动。） I gave her some money on the understanding that she should spend it on books .（我给了她一些钱，前提是她得把这钱花在买书上。）

此前，安南曾两度在联合国表示，他的儿子是在该公司实习，1999年底离开，并没有涉及该公司任何有关石油换食品计划合约。