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Erskine Childers: "Financing the United Nations"
Speech delivered in Rotterdam on 29 September 1995.
A chart outlining the many conditions affecting payment of UN arrears under the "Helms-Biden" legislation. The three-year program of conditions and the sums to be disbursed are shown.
A history of the UN financial crisis beginning in the UN's early years, covering the Reagan and Bush Administrations and the early Clinton years (ends where the Chronology begins, in mid-1994). This is highly recommended as a preliminary source before you browse the Chronology.Chronology of the UN Financial Situation
A detailed chronology of the UN financial situation beginning in August, 1994. Includes quotes from speeches of UN officials and government representatives with links to texts.Talking Points on the UN Financial Crisis
A short list of important reasons why the US should pay its UN dues, by James A. Paul, Executive Director of Global Policy Forum.Fact Sheet: Financing the United Nations (April 2006)
Late payment practices, US conditions on UN activities, and a spending cap on the Regular Budget for 2006 have deepened the UN’s financial difficulties. This fact sheet presents an overview on how member states fund the UN, including its Peacekeeping Missions, Programmes, Funds and Specialized Agencies. While member states’ mandatory contributions give the UN more independence, voluntary contributions - often tied to national interests - now constitute more than half of the UN’s funds. (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)US Conditions for Arrears Payment (Fiscal Year 1997 Budget)
Conditions imposed by Congress on US disbursements to the UN.Public Priorities in the Allocation of the US Federal Budget (September 2000)
A poll by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) asked a representative sample of the US population how they would allocate the federal budget. Among other things, they would triple the spending on the UN!Image & Reality: A 'Vast Sprawling Bureaucracy'? (1994)
Erskine Childers and Brian Urquhart address misinformation about UN staff and the size of its budget. While Western media often describe the UN as “a vast sprawling bureaucracy,” the UN employs fewer people than the District Health Services of Wales in Britain. Further disputing the misconception of the UN as “a gigantic paper factory,” Childers and Urquhart point out that “the New York Times consumes more paper in one single Sunday edition than the United Nations consumes in all its documents in a whole year.” (Renewing the United Nations System)
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