UN agrees to cut peacekeeping budget, a reduction US sought
Source: Associated Press
Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
Updated 6:49 pm, Friday, June 30, 2017
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly on Friday agreed to a significant cut in the budget for the U.N.'s far-flung peacekeeping missions, a reduction that the Trump administration fought hard to achieve though it wanted an even larger decrease.
After lengthy and heated negotiations, the assembly's powerful budget committee agreed to a $7.3 billion budget for 14 peacekeeping missions for the year starting July 1, a $570 million cut from the current budget of $7.87 billion.
The 193-member world body voted by consensus to approve $6.8 billion. It also agreed to an additional $500 million for two missions that are in the throes of downsizing — the joint U.N.-African Union mission in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said after the budget committee's agreement early Thursday: "Just five months into our time here, we've already been able to cut over half a billion dollars from the U.N. peacekeeping budget and we're only getting started."
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setting the world on fire.
Of course the associated costs from these "savings"
won't affect Trump personally, so they won't matter.
