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US government defaults on the UN's $1.157 billion membership fee:really the “world leader”
WeChat "Daily Economic News" 2019-06-09 07:37:37
https://newrss.guancha.cn/toutiao/t..._504866.shtml?tt_group_id=6700314445454770692
According to WeChat public account "Daily Economic News" (ID: nbdnews) news on June 9th, due to the arrears of membership due to the United States and other Member States, the UN's finances are now stretched so much that UN Secretary-General Guterres wants to sell.
A few days ago, at the Fifth Committee meeting of the UN General Assembly on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs, Guterres pointed out that the United Nations may run out of cash in August this year.
One of the main reasons for the United Nations’ lack of money is the increase in arrears of Member States. At present, the United Nations peacekeeping budget gap is $1.5 billion, and the regular budget has a gap of $492 million. Among them, the United States owed the most, up to 1.157 billion US dollars (about 8 billion yuan).
The United States owes $1.15 billion
The UN is running out of money.
According to the UN official Weibo news on June 7, UN Secretary-General Guterres pointed out that the financial situation of the United Nations has deteriorated over the past few years. One of the main reasons is the increase in the arrears of Member States. As of the end of 2018, the total amount of arrears of Member States was $529 million, equivalent to more than 20% of the United Nations regular budget share. As of this year, the arrears still reached $492 million. The United Nations either ran out of cash in August and borrowed from the Working Capital Fund.
According to information on the United Nations website, as of 6 June, only 104 of the 193 Member States of the United Nations had paid their regular budget assessments for 2019. As the largest developed country, the United States also has the highest arrears.
The United Nations budget consists of three parts: the regular budget required to maintain the normal functioning of the institution, the budget for the peacekeeping operations, and the budget of the International Criminal Tribunal’s Mechanism.
The share of each Member State’s budget is determined primarily by the ability of a country to pay, that is, the economic capacity of a country.
As the largest developed country, the United States is responsible for 22% of the recurrent budget of about $5.4 billion for the two-year recurrent budget from 2018 to 2019 and about $7 billion for the period from July 2018 to June 2019. The budget, 28.5% of the peacekeeping budget for the second half of 2018, and 27.9% of the peacekeeping budget for the first half of 2019.
According to the UN official website, because the United States has set a ceiling and only agreed to bear 25% of the UN peacekeeping fund share, resulting in a budget balance of about 3% and about 200 million U.S. dollars, which is now the United Nations in the world that has been plagued by funds. For the 14 peacekeeping operations deployed, it can be described as “adding worse”.
On January 11 this year, UN Secretary-General Guterres told 193 member states that the current arrears of UN peacekeeping funds by Member States amounted to 2 billion U.S. dollars, of which the United States owed one third of the arrears. According to estimates, as of January 1 this year, the United States has arrears to the United Nations on a recurrent budget of $381 million, and arrears of peacekeeping funds of $776 million.
The United Nations has financial difficulties, and Guttres has been eager to even consider selling houses.
According to Xinhua News Agency, at the Fifth Committee meeting of the UN General Assembly in charge of administration and budget, Guterres mentioned that after taking office in January 2017, the first thing he did was to ask whether the Secretary-General’s official residence could be sold. "I am not kidding. This is a real thing."
Located in Manhattan's lavish Sutton neighborhood, the Secretary-General's residence is a four-storey townhouse with a small garden overlooking the East River, with an estimated market value of tens of millions of dollars.
However, Guterres soon discovered that, according to the agreement signed between the United Nations and the United States where the headquarters is located, “selling houses” exceeded the Secretary-General’s terms of reference.
When "Lai Lai", the United States is used to it.
Since the Trump administration took office, it has been demanding a reduction in the US peacekeeping budget share. He has repeatedly complained that the United States has paid too much money to the United Nations.
Nikki Heili, the then permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, said at a high-level United Nations debate on peacekeeping reform in March last year that the United States will not account for more than 25% of the United Nations-related peacekeeping costs.
The arrears of the United States have caused dissatisfaction among the international community. However, the interests of the United States in the United Nations have not been affected in the slightest.
According to Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations, any Member State that is in arrears with financial funds will lose its voting rights in the UN General Assembly if its arrears amount equals or exceeds the amount payable in the previous two years. If Member States are in arrears for uncontrollable reasons and have been verified by the United Nations, these Member States can vote.
Although the United States currently has a large amount of arrears and still does not exceed the sum of the two years of fees payable, it still has the right to vote in the United Nations.
In fact, in the history of the United States, the United Nations has repeatedly defaulted on United Nations dues. In October 1995, the United States owed the United Nations normal dues and peacekeeping funds totaling $1.43 billion, which led to a deterioration in the financial situation of the United Nations. In October 2015, the regular budgetary expenses owed by UN member states exceeded US$950 million, of which the United States defaulted on US$800 million.
Became the second congress payment country, China has fully assumed
According to the new fee scale adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 22, 2018, China surpassed Japan for the first time and was promoted to the second contributor, second only to the United States; the regular budget share increased from 7.92% to 12.01%. The peacekeeping budget share ratio increased from 10.24% to 15.22%.
Image source: UN official Weibo
Image source: UN official Weibo
At present, China has fully taken up 12.01% of the UN's regular budget allocation. According to the official WeChat news of the United Nations, Secretary-General Stefan Dugarik expressed his gratitude to China for paying the 2019 dues in full at the press conference held in May, and said in Chinese: "Thank you."
美国拖欠会费80亿，联合国急得考虑卖房
微信公众号“每日经济新闻” 2019-06-09 07:37:37
https://newrss.guancha.cn/toutiao/t..._504866.shtml?tt_group_id=6700314445454770692
据微信公众号“每日经济新闻”（ID：nbdnews）6月9日消息，由于美国等会员国拖欠会费，现在联合国的财政捉襟见肘，以至于联合国秘书长古特雷斯都想卖房了。
日前，在联合国大会负责行政和预算事务的第五委员会会议上，古特雷斯指出，联合国或在今年8月耗尽现金。
造成联合国没钱的其中一个主要原因是会员国的欠款有所增加。目前，联合国维持和平预算缺口为15亿美元，常规预算则出现4.92亿美元缺口。其中，美国欠款最多，高达11.57亿美元（约合人民币80亿元）。
美国拖欠11.5亿美元
联合国快没钱了
据联合国官方微博6月7日消息，联合国秘书长古特雷斯指出，过去几年里，联合国的财政状况日益恶化，其中一个主要原因是会员国的欠款有所增加。截至2018年底，会员国拖欠会费总额为5.29亿美元，相当于当年联合国常规预算应分摊额的20%以上。而今年截至目前，欠款仍达4.92亿美元。联合国或在今年8月耗尽现金，并从周转基金借款。
联合国网站信息显示，截至6月6日，在联合国193个会员国中，只有104个会员国全部缴纳了2019年的经常预算摊款。作为最大的发达国家，美国的欠款也是最高。
联合国预算由三部分组成：支付维持机构正常运转所需的经常性预算、维和行动预算、和国际刑事法庭余留机制预算。
每个会员国在预算中所占的比例份额主要根据一国的支付能力、也就是一国的经济能力决定的。
作为最大的发达国家，在联合国2018年至2019年约54亿美元两年期经常性预算和2018年7月到2019年6月约70亿美元的维和预算中，美国分别负担22%的经常性预算、28.5%的2018年下半年维和预算、及27.9%的2019年上半年维和预算摊款。
据联合国官网消息，由于美国制定上限、只同意承担联合国维和经费份额的25%，从而导致约近3%、约为2亿美元的维和预算差额，这对于目前已经受到资金困扰的联合国在世界各地部署的14支维和行动来说，可谓“雪上加霜”。
今年1月11日，联合国秘书长古特雷斯告知193个会员国称，目前会员国拖欠联合国维和行动的经费高达20亿美元，其中美国的欠款占到三分之一。据测算，截止到今年1月1日，美国拖欠联合国的经常性预算金额为3亿8100万美元，拖欠的维和经费为7亿7600万美元。
联合国出现财政困难，把古特雷斯急到甚至考虑卖房了。
据新华社报道，联合国大会分管行政和预算的第五委员会会议上，古特雷斯发言时提到，2017年1月就任后，他做的第一件事就是询问是否可以出售秘书长官邸。“我没有开玩笑。这是真事。”
秘书长官邸位于曼哈顿奢华的萨顿居民区，是一栋四层联排别墅，有一座小花园，可以俯瞰东河，市场价值估计数以千万计美元。
可是，古特雷斯很快发现，根据联合国与总部所在地美国签署的协议，“卖房”超出秘书长的职权范围。
当“老赖”，美国习以为常
特朗普政府上台以来，一直要求降低美国的维和预算摊款份额。他曾多次抱怨美国给联合国交太多钱了。
美国时任常驻联合国代表妮基•黑莉去年3月在联合国关于维和改革的高级别辩论会上表示，美国今后承担联合国与维和相关费用的份额将不超过25%。
美国拖欠会费引发国际社会不满，然而美国在联合国的权益没有受到丝毫的影响。
根据《联合国宪章》第十九条规定，凡拖欠财政款项的会员国，其拖欠金额如果等于或超过前两年所应缴纳数目时，将失去在联合国大会的投票权。如果有会员国因为不可控原因拖欠，并且经过了联合国的核实，这些会员国可以投票。
虽然美国目前拖欠数额巨大，仍然未超过两年应缴费用之和，因此在联合国依然享有投票权。
事实上，历史上美国曾多次拖欠联合国会费。1995年10月，美国拖欠联合国正常会费和维和经费总额达到14.3亿美元，导致联合国的财政状况恶化。2015年10月，联合国成员国拖欠的常规预算费用超过9.5亿美元，其中美国拖欠8亿美元。
成为第二大会费缴纳国 中国已足额承担
根据2018年12月22日联大会议通过的新会费比额，中国首次超过日本，升为第二大会费缴纳国，仅次于美国；常规预算分摊比例由原来的7.92%升至12.01%，维和预算分摊比例由原来的10.24%升至15.22%。
图片来源：联合国官方微博
图片来源：联合国官方微博
目前，中国已足额承担联合国常规预算分摊的12.01%。据联合国官方微信消息，秘书长发言人斯特凡·杜加里克在5月召开的新闻发布会上特别向中国足额缴纳2019年会费表达感谢，并用中文说：“谢谢”
WeChat "Daily Economic News" 2019-06-09 07:37:37
https://newrss.guancha.cn/toutiao/t..._504866.shtml?tt_group_id=6700314445454770692
According to WeChat public account "Daily Economic News" (ID: nbdnews) news on June 9th, due to the arrears of membership due to the United States and other Member States, the UN's finances are now stretched so much that UN Secretary-General Guterres wants to sell.
A few days ago, at the Fifth Committee meeting of the UN General Assembly on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs, Guterres pointed out that the United Nations may run out of cash in August this year.
One of the main reasons for the United Nations’ lack of money is the increase in arrears of Member States. At present, the United Nations peacekeeping budget gap is $1.5 billion, and the regular budget has a gap of $492 million. Among them, the United States owed the most, up to 1.157 billion US dollars (about 8 billion yuan).
The United States owes $1.15 billion
The UN is running out of money.
According to the UN official Weibo news on June 7, UN Secretary-General Guterres pointed out that the financial situation of the United Nations has deteriorated over the past few years. One of the main reasons is the increase in the arrears of Member States. As of the end of 2018, the total amount of arrears of Member States was $529 million, equivalent to more than 20% of the United Nations regular budget share. As of this year, the arrears still reached $492 million. The United Nations either ran out of cash in August and borrowed from the Working Capital Fund.
According to information on the United Nations website, as of 6 June, only 104 of the 193 Member States of the United Nations had paid their regular budget assessments for 2019. As the largest developed country, the United States also has the highest arrears.
The United Nations budget consists of three parts: the regular budget required to maintain the normal functioning of the institution, the budget for the peacekeeping operations, and the budget of the International Criminal Tribunal’s Mechanism.
The share of each Member State’s budget is determined primarily by the ability of a country to pay, that is, the economic capacity of a country.
As the largest developed country, the United States is responsible for 22% of the recurrent budget of about $5.4 billion for the two-year recurrent budget from 2018 to 2019 and about $7 billion for the period from July 2018 to June 2019. The budget, 28.5% of the peacekeeping budget for the second half of 2018, and 27.9% of the peacekeeping budget for the first half of 2019.
According to the UN official website, because the United States has set a ceiling and only agreed to bear 25% of the UN peacekeeping fund share, resulting in a budget balance of about 3% and about 200 million U.S. dollars, which is now the United Nations in the world that has been plagued by funds. For the 14 peacekeeping operations deployed, it can be described as “adding worse”.
On January 11 this year, UN Secretary-General Guterres told 193 member states that the current arrears of UN peacekeeping funds by Member States amounted to 2 billion U.S. dollars, of which the United States owed one third of the arrears. According to estimates, as of January 1 this year, the United States has arrears to the United Nations on a recurrent budget of $381 million, and arrears of peacekeeping funds of $776 million.
The United Nations has financial difficulties, and Guttres has been eager to even consider selling houses.
According to Xinhua News Agency, at the Fifth Committee meeting of the UN General Assembly in charge of administration and budget, Guterres mentioned that after taking office in January 2017, the first thing he did was to ask whether the Secretary-General’s official residence could be sold. "I am not kidding. This is a real thing."
Located in Manhattan's lavish Sutton neighborhood, the Secretary-General's residence is a four-storey townhouse with a small garden overlooking the East River, with an estimated market value of tens of millions of dollars.
However, Guterres soon discovered that, according to the agreement signed between the United Nations and the United States where the headquarters is located, “selling houses” exceeded the Secretary-General’s terms of reference.
When "Lai Lai", the United States is used to it.
Since the Trump administration took office, it has been demanding a reduction in the US peacekeeping budget share. He has repeatedly complained that the United States has paid too much money to the United Nations.
Nikki Heili, the then permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, said at a high-level United Nations debate on peacekeeping reform in March last year that the United States will not account for more than 25% of the United Nations-related peacekeeping costs.
The arrears of the United States have caused dissatisfaction among the international community. However, the interests of the United States in the United Nations have not been affected in the slightest.
According to Article 19 of the Charter of the United Nations, any Member State that is in arrears with financial funds will lose its voting rights in the UN General Assembly if its arrears amount equals or exceeds the amount payable in the previous two years. If Member States are in arrears for uncontrollable reasons and have been verified by the United Nations, these Member States can vote.
Although the United States currently has a large amount of arrears and still does not exceed the sum of the two years of fees payable, it still has the right to vote in the United Nations.
In fact, in the history of the United States, the United Nations has repeatedly defaulted on United Nations dues. In October 1995, the United States owed the United Nations normal dues and peacekeeping funds totaling $1.43 billion, which led to a deterioration in the financial situation of the United Nations. In October 2015, the regular budgetary expenses owed by UN member states exceeded US$950 million, of which the United States defaulted on US$800 million.
Became the second congress payment country, China has fully assumed
According to the new fee scale adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 22, 2018, China surpassed Japan for the first time and was promoted to the second contributor, second only to the United States; the regular budget share increased from 7.92% to 12.01%. The peacekeeping budget share ratio increased from 10.24% to 15.22%.
Image source: UN official Weibo
Image source: UN official Weibo
At present, China has fully taken up 12.01% of the UN's regular budget allocation. According to the official WeChat news of the United Nations, Secretary-General Stefan Dugarik expressed his gratitude to China for paying the 2019 dues in full at the press conference held in May, and said in Chinese: "Thank you."
美国拖欠会费80亿，联合国急得考虑卖房
微信公众号“每日经济新闻” 2019-06-09 07:37:37
https://newrss.guancha.cn/toutiao/t..._504866.shtml?tt_group_id=6700314445454770692
据微信公众号“每日经济新闻”（ID：nbdnews）6月9日消息，由于美国等会员国拖欠会费，现在联合国的财政捉襟见肘，以至于联合国秘书长古特雷斯都想卖房了。
日前，在联合国大会负责行政和预算事务的第五委员会会议上，古特雷斯指出，联合国或在今年8月耗尽现金。
造成联合国没钱的其中一个主要原因是会员国的欠款有所增加。目前，联合国维持和平预算缺口为15亿美元，常规预算则出现4.92亿美元缺口。其中，美国欠款最多，高达11.57亿美元（约合人民币80亿元）。
美国拖欠11.5亿美元
联合国快没钱了
据联合国官方微博6月7日消息，联合国秘书长古特雷斯指出，过去几年里，联合国的财政状况日益恶化，其中一个主要原因是会员国的欠款有所增加。截至2018年底，会员国拖欠会费总额为5.29亿美元，相当于当年联合国常规预算应分摊额的20%以上。而今年截至目前，欠款仍达4.92亿美元。联合国或在今年8月耗尽现金，并从周转基金借款。
联合国网站信息显示，截至6月6日，在联合国193个会员国中，只有104个会员国全部缴纳了2019年的经常预算摊款。作为最大的发达国家，美国的欠款也是最高。
联合国预算由三部分组成：支付维持机构正常运转所需的经常性预算、维和行动预算、和国际刑事法庭余留机制预算。
每个会员国在预算中所占的比例份额主要根据一国的支付能力、也就是一国的经济能力决定的。
作为最大的发达国家，在联合国2018年至2019年约54亿美元两年期经常性预算和2018年7月到2019年6月约70亿美元的维和预算中，美国分别负担22%的经常性预算、28.5%的2018年下半年维和预算、及27.9%的2019年上半年维和预算摊款。
据联合国官网消息，由于美国制定上限、只同意承担联合国维和经费份额的25%，从而导致约近3%、约为2亿美元的维和预算差额，这对于目前已经受到资金困扰的联合国在世界各地部署的14支维和行动来说，可谓“雪上加霜”。
今年1月11日，联合国秘书长古特雷斯告知193个会员国称，目前会员国拖欠联合国维和行动的经费高达20亿美元，其中美国的欠款占到三分之一。据测算，截止到今年1月1日，美国拖欠联合国的经常性预算金额为3亿8100万美元，拖欠的维和经费为7亿7600万美元。
联合国出现财政困难，把古特雷斯急到甚至考虑卖房了。
据新华社报道，联合国大会分管行政和预算的第五委员会会议上，古特雷斯发言时提到，2017年1月就任后，他做的第一件事就是询问是否可以出售秘书长官邸。“我没有开玩笑。这是真事。”
秘书长官邸位于曼哈顿奢华的萨顿居民区，是一栋四层联排别墅，有一座小花园，可以俯瞰东河，市场价值估计数以千万计美元。
可是，古特雷斯很快发现，根据联合国与总部所在地美国签署的协议，“卖房”超出秘书长的职权范围。
当“老赖”，美国习以为常
特朗普政府上台以来，一直要求降低美国的维和预算摊款份额。他曾多次抱怨美国给联合国交太多钱了。
美国时任常驻联合国代表妮基•黑莉去年3月在联合国关于维和改革的高级别辩论会上表示，美国今后承担联合国与维和相关费用的份额将不超过25%。
美国拖欠会费引发国际社会不满，然而美国在联合国的权益没有受到丝毫的影响。
根据《联合国宪章》第十九条规定，凡拖欠财政款项的会员国，其拖欠金额如果等于或超过前两年所应缴纳数目时，将失去在联合国大会的投票权。如果有会员国因为不可控原因拖欠，并且经过了联合国的核实，这些会员国可以投票。
虽然美国目前拖欠数额巨大，仍然未超过两年应缴费用之和，因此在联合国依然享有投票权。
事实上，历史上美国曾多次拖欠联合国会费。1995年10月，美国拖欠联合国正常会费和维和经费总额达到14.3亿美元，导致联合国的财政状况恶化。2015年10月，联合国成员国拖欠的常规预算费用超过9.5亿美元，其中美国拖欠8亿美元。
成为第二大会费缴纳国 中国已足额承担
根据2018年12月22日联大会议通过的新会费比额，中国首次超过日本，升为第二大会费缴纳国，仅次于美国；常规预算分摊比例由原来的7.92%升至12.01%，维和预算分摊比例由原来的10.24%升至15.22%。
图片来源：联合国官方微博
图片来源：联合国官方微博
目前，中国已足额承担联合国常规预算分摊的12.01%。据联合国官方微信消息，秘书长发言人斯特凡·杜加里克在5月召开的新闻发布会上特别向中国足额缴纳2019年会费表达感谢，并用中文说：“谢谢”
