Friday, December 28, 2018

UN Faces a $220M Budget Shortfall for 2019; Time May Be Ripe to Abolish Ineffective Org.

American diplomats attached to the United Nations headquarters in New York have failed in their attempt to get other countries --such as Brazil, India, and Turkey -- to step up their funding of UN "peacekeeping" forces, The New American website reports today (December 28, 2018).

As of now, the organization faces a $220 million budget shortfall for the upcoming year.

"Unfortunately, in a deeply dissatisfying and disappointing turn of events, every country decided that reform was good and right for the UN, but not how it is financed," said Ambassador Cherith Norman Chalet, the U.S. representative for UN reform on December 22.

President Donald Trump has reinstituted the cap of the U.S. share of UN peacekeeping at 25 percent, which President Barack Obama had waived. Trump has also called for abolishing the UN, since he sees it as being a wasteful and ineffective money drainer.

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