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US: Won’t pay over 25 percent of UN peacekeeping
Topic Started: Mar 29 2018, 06:10 AM (78 Views)
George K
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Finally
Nikki Haley speaks

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The United States will no longer shoulder more than a quarter of the multibillion-dollar costs of the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, Washington’s envoy said Wednesday.

“Peacekeeping is a shared responsibility,” U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said at a Security Council debate on peacekeeping reform. “All of us have a role to play, and all of us must step up.”

The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the U.N.’s 15 peacekeeping missions worldwide. Washington is paying about 28.5 percent of this year’s $7.3 billion peacekeeping budget, though Haley said U.S. law is supposed to cap the contribution at 25 percent.

The second-biggest contributor, China, pays a bit over 10 percent.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has complained before that the budget and Washington’s share are too high and pressed to cut this year’s budget. It is $570 million below last year’s, a smaller decrease than the U.S. wanted.

“We’re only getting started,” Haley said when the cut was approved in June. It followed a $400 million trim the prior year, before Trump’s administration.
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Jolly
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Sounds reasonable.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Assuming the UN peacekeeping expenditure remains substantial (multi-billion US Dollars) ... will there be a day when another country (China, Russia, Japan, Germany ... take your pick) will pay an even bigger share of the UN peacekeeping expenses than the USA?

Would you look forward to that day? Which country or countries would you prefer to be the ones paying more than the USA for UN peacekeeping expenses?
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Jolly
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Axtremus
Mar 29 2018, 06:54 AM
Assuming the UN peacekeeping expenditure remains substantial (multi-billion US Dollars) ... will there be a day when another country (China, Russia, Japan, Germany ... take your pick) will pay an even bigger share of the UN peacekeeping expenses than the USA?

Would you look forward to that day? Which country or countries would you prefer to be the ones paying more than the USA for UN peacekeeping expenses?
I can't see any of those countries doing so in the immediate future.

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Copper
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You get what you pay for.

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Mikhailoh
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You should, but we don’t. This is a good thing.
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George K
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Mikhailoh
Mar 29 2018, 09:41 AM
This is a good thing.
So is obeying the law.

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Haley said U.S. law is supposed to cap the contribution at 25 percent.
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