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Ghali recommends reducing US contribution to UN
UNITED NATIONS. Feb 7: Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali startled General Assembly members on Tuesday by recommending that the United State contribution to the UN budget be cut from 25 per cent to 15 or 20 per cent, reports Reuter.
His suggestion of a ceiling on assessments was spurred by a financial crisis due largely to Washington's arrears and by a desire to end its dependence on any one member. By the end of 1995. the United States owed half of the UN debt of 2.3 billion ■ dollars for peacekeeping and regular dues.
He did not name the United States -but It is the only member assessed at more than 20 per cent of the regular budget, now fixed at about 2.6 billion dollars over two years. Japan is in second place, paying more than 15 per cent of the budget.
In a speech to a financial committee made up of UN ambassadors Boutros Ghali departed from a prepared text to say "a ceiling of 20 per cent of 15 per cent of the assessments of any member state to the regular budget of the UN... would better reflect the fact that this or-
ganisation is the instrument of all nations."
Any change in assessments now based on economic wealth, would need to be decided by the General Assembly.
European Union diplomats whose countries together pay 35 per cent of UN expenses immediately said the proposal was unrealistic as they and Japan would have to make up the difference.
Italy's Ambassador Francesco Paulo Fulci. whose country holds the current European Union presidency, said attaching conditions to fulfillment of international obligations is not acceptable he said the world body "should get serious about imposing penalties on members who are consistently late and in major arrears.
Boutros-Ghali made his recommendation in light of the refusal of the Republican-dominated US Congress to pay the arrears.
Joseph Connor, the UN Undersecretary-General for administration and management. says the United Nations will be totally broken by the end of 1996 unless Washington pays up.
The new two-year UN zero growth budget of 2.6 million
dollar Is 200 million dollar less than the United Nations had requested. After it was adopted in December, the assembly asked Boutros-Ghali to find another 104 million dollar in additional cuts.
To meet these requirements Connor said on Tuesday the world body probably will have to cut about 10 per cent of a permanent staff of more than 10.000 in New York headquarters and seven other cities over the next year in addition, many staff on short-term contracts will not be renewed.
Boutros-Ghali did not give any details on staff cuts except to say new "budgetary reductions of such magnitude can be realised only through a combination of staff reductions and reductions in’ non staff costs."
Boutros Ghali also said he was Contacting heads of state from countries in arrears and suggested those states undertake a long term payment plan as Russian had done.
He again proposed a special UN Genera] Assembly session to deal with the crisis Saying the world body could not reform itself properly unless it had adequate resources.