President Donald Trump’s promise to save American taxpayers money by getting other countries to contribute more to international organisations has been put to the test at the United Nations.
It didn’t go well.
American diplomats in New York lobbied countries including India, Brazil, and Turkey to increase their financial support for the UN’s $6.7bn-a-year peacekeeping budget, but they came up short during negotiations this month.
That will leave the “blue helmets,” who monitor conflict zones from South Sudan to Lebanon, with a $220m shortfall for the year, as the US refuses to pay more than a quarter of the total budget.
“Unfortunately, in a deeply dissatisfying and disappointing turn of events, every country decided reform was good and right for the UN, but not for how it is financed,” Ambassador Cherith Norman Chalet, the US representative for UN reform, said on Saturday.
The US remains the top contributor to UN budgets, paying more than $10bn a year when all expenditures are totaled.
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6 comments:
Cut the bastards off . Sell the real estate
Imagine how much paper it would save just to abolish UN & IRS!
Great move on President Trump's board...Drain the Swamp
Finally a President that looks out for the American people.
Pay your share
End of conversation
Yes Sir, exactly correct
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