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UN may ‘run out of money by Oct end’, says Antonio Guterres in letter to 37,000 employees
AFP via The Statesman (India) ^ | 10/8/2019 | Uncredited

Posted on 10/08/2019 7:34:24 AM PDT by RightGeek

The United Nations (UN) is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October.

In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the UN secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said unspecified “additional stop-gap measures” would have to be taken to ensure salaries and entitlements are paid.

“Member States have paid only 70 per cent of the total amount needed for our regular budget operations in 2019. This translates into a cash shortage of $230 million at the end of September. We run the risk of depleting our backup liquidity reserves by the end of the month,” he wrote.

To cut costs, Guterres mentioned postponing conferences and meetings and reducing services, while also restricting official travel to only essential activities and taking measures to save energy.

Guterres had asked member states earlier this year to up contributions to the world body to head off cash flow problems, but they refused, a UN official said on condition of anonymity.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestatesman.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antonioguterres; globalists; trumpun; winning
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Kick the leeches out, tear the place down.


1 posted on 10/08/2019 7:34:24 AM PDT by RightGeek
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Make it a new Trump Tower.


2 posted on 10/08/2019 7:35:23 AM PDT by o-n-money
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The attempt at a World Government has failed. Close up the anti-borders institution.


3 posted on 10/08/2019 7:35:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: RightGeek

Is that a problem?


4 posted on 10/08/2019 7:35:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
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nothing changes until the cashflow stops. short of cash, they now have to prioritize. We will now see what is important to them by where they spend the money.


5 posted on 10/08/2019 7:36:22 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: RightGeek; All

I do love a happy ending.


6 posted on 10/08/2019 7:36:42 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: RightGeek

Aw, that’s a shame


7 posted on 10/08/2019 7:37:16 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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The UN running out of money before the end of the month is the best news I’ve heard today.
Close it down, reclaim the land and put something actually useful in its place.


8 posted on 10/08/2019 7:38:21 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: RightGeek

They could easily Reduce Expenses by relocating to Syria where land is Cheap!


9 posted on 10/08/2019 7:38:37 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: RightGeek

So sad. No, really.


10 posted on 10/08/2019 7:39:28 AM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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Just Die, you Commie and Muzzie nest.


11 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:18 AM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: RightGeek

37000 employees and they don’t produce a damed thing.What bunch of Anti American parasites.


12 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:20 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: eyeamok

Afghanistan is nice this time of year.


13 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:26 AM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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I’m surprised the topic of relocating hasn’t come up. If they were in some city like Prague....they could trim their budget by 50-percent compared against NY City.


14 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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LOL

i’d like a Trump casino :)

or Trump gentleman’s club.

But that’s just me


15 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:31 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: RightGeek

Have a Global Warming Bake Sale or ask Greta for her Nobel Prize money if/when she wins


16 posted on 10/08/2019 7:40:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RightGeek

Shut it down, it is useless.
No, worse than useless.


17 posted on 10/08/2019 7:41:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Starve the beast. Raise their rent.


18 posted on 10/08/2019 7:41:49 AM PDT by RatRipper
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37,000 employees?????

I think I see the problem....no wonder these globalists are running out of money.


19 posted on 10/08/2019 7:42:30 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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Perfect!

The time is long passed due where the UN gets out of the US and the US gets out of the UN.


20 posted on 10/08/2019 7:42:54 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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