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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
How have we not payed our dues? We foot 25% of the operational bills, contribute more money/aid to the various operations and programs then any other country, contribute(d) troops to just about every major and minor peace keeping mission. What more could we do? And for the record the U.N. is in debt to us, the New York branch almost went under and we bailed them out. Maybe the rest of the world should step up to the plate.
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Up until 1999, the US was almost a billion dollars behind in its payments. Now, the US routinely takes atleast 10 months to pay its dues to the UN. What usually happens is the UN operates without its full budget and when halfway through the year it runs out of money it has to borrow from the peace keeping budget. The UN is not allowed to borrow from external sources. Furthermore, what's taken from the peace keeping budget is not reimbursed for quite some time simply because there is no money to do so.
What more could you do? How about paying your bills on time?
SLM3