UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) patrol the border with Israel near the village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/File
Reuters: U.N. members owe $2 billion in debt to peacekeeping, U.S. owes a third
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. member states owe nearly $2 billion in peacekeeping funds, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned, with the United States responsible for more than a third of that.
“Active peacekeeping missions are soon expected to face liquidity gaps due to late payments and increasing arrears,” Guterres wrote in a Jan. 11 letter to the 193 member states. “Arrears are nearing $2 billion and are likely to keep growing.”
Guterres also said that while 152 members had paid in full what they owed for a separate U.N. regular budget in 2018 - a record - more than $528 million was still outstanding.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. debt to the UN is broken down like this .... The United States owed $381 million to the regular budget as of Jan. 1 and some $776 million to the peacekeeping budget, U.N. officials said, figures the U.S. mission to the U.N. confirmed.
5 comments:
Change the percentages. Update them. China is the 2nd biggest economy. Make them pull more of the load.
It is all BS.
776 million to the peacekeeping budget.
Why?
UN peacekeepers in Congo hold record for rape, sex abuse
I am not impressed with the record of the Peacekeepers in Lebanon or Spanish Sahara either.
The U.N owes the U.S for the times they were the only nation enforcing resolutions with more than damn rhetoric.
When the U.N. Pays for the wall then the government can reopen. More likely than Mexico. Then the U.S. Will pay the bill using the trade proceeds. True news. MSM will not cover the plan. Shame.
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