{"id":25476,"date":"2020-05-16T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/china-calls-on-u-s-to-pay-its-debts-to-the-united-nations\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:28:56","slug":"china-calls-on-u-s-to-pay-its-debts-to-the-united-nations-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25476","title":{"rendered":"China calls on U.S. to pay its debts to the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>As of May 14, the total unpaid assessments under the U.N. regular budget and peacekeeping budget amount to 1.63 billion and 2.14 billion U.S. dollars respectively,\u2019 the Chinese statement said<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-calls-on-us-to-pay-its-debts-to-the-united-nations\/article31597852.ece\">AFP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China on Friday issued a statement calling on all U.N. member states to \u201cactively fulfill their financial obligations to the United Nations,\u201d stressing that Washington owes the organization more than $2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs of May 14, the total unpaid assessments under the U.N. regular budget and peacekeeping budget amount to 1.63 billion and 2.14 billion U.S. dollars respectively,\u201d the Chinese statement said, citing a report from U.N. Secretary-General\u2019s office and a meeting held on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Including arrears that stretch back several years, \u201cthe United States is the largest debtor, owing 1.165 billion and 1.332 billion U.S. dollars respectively,\u201d China added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the U.N. budget, paying 22 percent of its annual running costs, a bill which adds up to around $3 billion, and 25 percent of its peacekeeping operations, which amount to some $6 billion a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officially, Washington is meant to pay 27.89 percent of the peacekeeping budget, but a decision made by Congress and implemented by President Donald Trump in 2017 cut that payment to 25 percent, meaning Washington runs up an annual shortfall of $200 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States also has a fiscal year that runs from October to October, which can make it look like an even bigger debtor at certain times of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no immediate response from the U.S. mission to China\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The payment of contributions by member countries for peacekeeping operations has a direct impact on the reimbursements the U.N. p.ays to countries that contribute troops to the 15 or so missions around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a report on May 11, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that \u201cthere may be significant delays towards the middle of the year, unless the cash position across missions improves significantly.\u201d On Thursday, around 50 of the 193 member states, including China, paid their contributions in full, which Beijing \u2014 the second largest contributor, far behind the United States \u2014 noted in its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China pays around 12 percent of the U.N.\u2019s running costs and around 15 percent of the peacekeeping budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of May 14, the total unpaid assessments under the U.N. regular budget and peacekeeping budget amount to 1.63 billion and 2.14 billion U.S. dollars respectively,\u2019 the Chinese statement said AFP China on Friday issued a statement calling on all U.N. member states to \u201cactively fulfill their financial obligations to the United Nations,\u201d stressing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}