[UN 8 Reuters]-UN Secretary-General Guteres warned on the 8th that if the member states don't pay their share to the United Nations, they may not be able to pay their staff next month.
The Secretary-General pointed out at the UN General Assembly's Administrative and Fiscal Committee (5th Committee) that if he hadn't tried to cut spending since January, he couldn't find enough money to support last year's annual meeting. “This month is the worst deficit in the last 10 years and we may run out of funds to pay wages in November. Our work and reforms are at risk.”
The largest share of the 2019 budget of over $ 3.3 billion, accounting for 22% of the US burden. The allocation in the previous year's budget is $ 381 million, and this year it is $ 674 million.
US President Trump is calling for UN reform, saying that the proportion of the United States is unreasonably high.
UN spokesman Dujalik said that 129 of the 193 member countries have paid the 2019 share, and about $ 2 billion has been secured.