China calls on United States to pay its debts to United Nations

China has issued a statement calling on all United Nations member states to actively fulfil ir financial obligations to organisation. statement released on May 15 stressed that Washington owes more than $2 billion to organisation. It furr said that including all money owed in several past years, US makes up to be largest debtor, owing over 1.165 billion and 1.332 billion US dollars respectively. However, re has been response to Chinese claim from US as of w. 

"As of May 14, total unpaid assessments under UN regular budget and peacekeeping budget amounted to 1.63 and 2.14 billion us dollars respectively, a Chinese statement re. 

United States of America is largest contributor to UN budget paying 22 per cent of its total annual running cost and 25 per cent of its peacekeeping operations.  payment me by America has a direct impact on reimbursement UN pays to countries that send its troops in those missions. Officially Washington is meant to pay 27.89 per cent of Un mission's total budget but a decision me by Congress as President Donald Trump cut it to 25 per cent.

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China, which is  second-largest contributor to UN, contributes 12 per cent of UN’s running costs and 15 per cent of its peacekeeping missions. On May 15, 50 of 193 members states including China paid ir dues to full. This comes as United Nations has been struggling with a cash crunch. Recently, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that re might be “significant delays” towards middle of  year unless cash positions improve significantly.

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Deployment of troops suspended 

Meanwhile, Geneva-based body has anunced suspension of rotation and deployments of its uniformed personnel, including individual officers, police, troops for peacekeeping units until June 30 due to COVID-19 pandemic.  international news ncy quoted spokesperson of UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric on April 7 that peace-keeping body’s main priority remains to ensure “COVID-19-free status” of uniformed personnel coming to remove risk of infection. most recent decision by UN has been reportedly sent to all countries that contribute military and police to places for organisation’s operations of peacekeeping. 

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