Re: [FT]United Nations?

Donald Hosford wrote:

> This leaves me with a question...If everyone is paying their dues, the
> budget is still overunning, the US is "making payments far in excess
of
> its dues" -- How is it that we (the US) still have to pay
> the vast remaining amount?  Doesn't seem the slightest bit fair...

You've misunderstood the quote, I think:

>> [the USA] had contributed an amount exceeding its assessed
contribution 
>> for 1998, the amount it still owed represented 76 per cent of all
unpaid
>> regular budget assessments at the end of 1998."

In 1998, the US paid more than it's annual contribution.

They still owe money from _previous_ contributions.

Of the money owed to the UN from previous years, 76% of that is unpaid
US
dues. The remaining 24% is other nation's unpaid dues. Probably nations
like Serbia, Congo/Zimbabwe, etc. Isn't it nice that the US is in such
august company?

In other words, the US has been shorting the UN for years. Being a bit
more generous in 1998 is nice, but they still owe the cash from all
those
previous shortings!

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