UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Mark Malloch Brown, UN Secretary-General Annan's chief of staff, is scheduled to visit Washington Wednesday to brief US lawmakers on the report released last week by Volker's Independent Inquiry Committee, said UN spokesman Fred Eckhard Tuesday.

    This is a follow-up to the interim report by former US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker's Independent Inquiry Committee, said Eckhard.

    Among those Brown is to meet Senators Norm Coleman and Carl Levin, the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat, respectively,of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Representatives Henry Hyde and Tom Lantos of the House International Relations Committee.

    Brown is to report to the US lawmakers what the United Nations has done in recent years to reform its administrative and management practices, Eckhard said.

    The report raised questions about UN management practices concerning the multi-billion dollar humanitarian operation, which permitted the sanctions-bound regime in Baghdad to purchase reliefsupplies with oil revenues.

    He said he thought "any lawmaker anywhere in the world" would like a briefing on what the United Nations, under the secretary, had been doing quietly over the years, such as reforming the procurement, personnel and budget processes.

    Senator Coleman has previously called for Annan's resignation in connection with the US Senate's investigation into the Oil-For-Food program. Enditem