UN Owes India $80 Mn, Highest Debt to Any Country

Brazil and Venezuela are the other top two member states which owe $75 million and $22 million respectively to the UN. Fifty-six other member states owed the organisation $53 million for the regular budget. Takasu said the UN is urging member states to expedite payment of outstanding dues to the world body so that it could in turn pay to countries like India for their services. “UN has no resources of its own, so we are totally dependent on income from member states. At the same time we have obligation for countries working for us.” “We are very much conscious of this. Peacekeeping budget is slightly different from regular budget,” he said when asked to explain how significant amounts of money are owed to mostly developing nations while countries like the US have not paid their dues to the UN.

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