At present, the gap of the United Nations peacekeeping budget is $654.38+0.5 billion, while the gap of the regular budget is $492 million. Among them, the United States owes the most, up to165438+57 million US dollars (about 8 billion yuan).
In fact, the United States' arrears to the United Nations did not start today-since 1986, the United States' arrears to the United Nations have increased year by year.
Why does the United States always embarrass the United Nations as a "deadbeat"?
Since Trump took office, he has repeatedly complained that the United States has paid too much money to the United Nations, and wrote on Twitter: "The United Nations has great potential, but now it is just a club where a group of people get together to chat and kill time. Too sad! "
From the perspective of international politics, Trump is dissatisfied with many existing international organizations, so he quits the group if he disagrees. Since taking office, he has quit more than a dozen organizations. His attitude towards the United Nations and its membership dues has much to do with his political ideas.
The Trump administration has been calling for a reduction in the share of the United States in the peacekeeping budget. Nikki Heili, then the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, said at the high-level debate on UN peacekeeping reform in March last year that the share of the United States will not exceed 25% in the future. This standard is 3.5 percentage points different from the 28.5% that the United States should bear. It is natural that there is a gap.
The problem in the United States lies not only in the current administration's political attitude towards the United Nations, but also in the fact that successive American presidents have been doing so for at least 20 years. The United States believes that United Nations resolutions do not meet the political requirements of the United States and often disagree with the United States on some important issues, especially when the United States needs the endorsement of the United Nations to intervene in other countries by force.
Due to the painful lessons of the Second World War, mankind has paid huge economic and personnel losses. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, the present United Nations was established after the war. It is a war to use the United Nations to rationally control differences in the world, and the United Nations has no source of income. According to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the office and operating expenses of the United Nations are shared by the constituent countries. Basically, the proportion is allocated according to the size and wealth of the country, that is, rich countries pay more and poor countries pay less.
The United States has been the world's number one economic power for decades, accounting for a quarter of the world's total GDP, which can be said to be very rich. However, so far, the United Nations has encountered financial difficulties, and the United States is the largest debtor, with a total debt of $800 million to the United Nations.