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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 814035" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><strong>U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending in Opposition of U.S.</strong></p><p></p><p>Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—<span style="color: red"><strong>and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow</strong></span>—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters.</p><p> </p><p>The U.S. pays 22 percent of the so-called”core” budget of the U.N. Secretariat, and 27 percent of peacekeeping expenses, but its so-called voluntary spending on U.N. agencies and programs goes far beyond that, to an estimated $6.3 billion overall.</p><p> </p><p>Even that number is likely a significant under-estimation, since many U.N. bodes operate as “implementing agencies”—program managers—for U.S. funds that are channeled through non-U.N. institutions, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), where the U.S. has donated $5.1 billion since 2002, and pledged an additional $4.4 billion. The implementing agencies typically charge a percentage for their services.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/03/uk-pulls-plug-united-nations-spending-opposition/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/03/uk-pulls-plug-united-nations-spending-opposition/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 814035, member: 25159"] [B]U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending in Opposition of U.S.[/B] Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—[COLOR=red][B]and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow[/B][/COLOR]—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters. The U.S. pays 22 percent of the so-called”core” budget of the U.N. Secretariat, and 27 percent of peacekeeping expenses, but its so-called voluntary spending on U.N. agencies and programs goes far beyond that, to an estimated $6.3 billion overall. Even that number is likely a significant under-estimation, since many U.N. bodes operate as “implementing agencies”—program managers—for U.S. funds that are channeled through non-U.N. institutions, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), where the U.S. has donated $5.1 billion since 2002, and pledged an additional $4.4 billion. The implementing agencies typically charge a percentage for their services. [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/03/uk-pulls-plug-united-nations-spending-opposition/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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