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U.S. should pay its dues to the UN, said retired officials
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09 April 2021
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WASHINGTON, 9 April, 2021 (TON): Three retired senior officials of the U.S. State Department have called on the present Biden administration to pay the dues the country owes to the UN peacekeeping budget, the media reported on Thursday.
According to the writers, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, and former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Pickering, the arrears have been accrued for four years with a net total of more than $1 Billion.
In the piece of writing titled "The United States Must Pay the United Nations What It Owes", the writers said, "In 1999, the United States' vote at the UN General Assembly was threatened because of lack of payment."
"US credibility was on the line; it appeared hypocritical to advocate for robust multilateral action while also withholding the dues to support such activities," it said.
However, this was published on the Foreign Policy website last week.
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