U.S. drops insistence on UN budget cap for 2006

[Eugene]

U.S. drops insistence on UN budget cap for 2006
26 Jun 2006 21:35:12 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (Reuters) - The United States will drop its insistence
that rich nations withhold funds from the U.N. budget next month unless management
reforms are enacted, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Friday.

But he warned that, while the President George W. Bush's administration was in favor
of paying U.S. dues in full this year, Congress might not be so amenable because
of the slow pace of reforms.

Under pressure from the United States, U.N. members agreed in December to tie the
budget for this year's second half to management improvements.

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The move to tie the U.N. budget to management improvements was aimed at pressuring
developing nations into approving the reforms. Instead it backfired, angering poor
nations who accused wealthy countries of trying to secretly seize control of the world
body from the full membership.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26133895.htm

[AlamoDemoc]

1. We should continue funding the UN, its in our best interest to do so

It is in our interest because we need such a wide international backing, in oder to threaten, and manipulate the rest of the world with legitimacy that only comes with the UN blessings.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. The US doesn't exactly have the high ground here

I mean, really: who is the Junta to counsel others on fiscal management and prudent financial policy?