Haley: US won’t fund more than 25 percent of UN peacekeeping budget
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(Worthy News) – The United States will no longer provide more than a quarter of the funding for the United Nations’s peacekeeping efforts, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the organization Wednesday.
“The United States has long been the largest financial contributor to U.N. peacekeeping by far. That will not change,” Haley said.
But Haley cautioned that “peacekeeping is a shared responsibility.”
“With shared responsibility comes shared burdens and shared costs. One country should not shoulder more than one-quarter of the U.N. peacekeeping budget.” [ Source: The Hill (Read More…) ]
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