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U.S. warns U.N. cash cutbacks coming: 'We're only getting started'
wnd.com ^ | 3/30/2018 | unknown

Posted on 03/30/2018 8:02:16 AM PDT by rktman

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has confirmed that going forward, the U.S. will pay no more than 25 percent of its peacekeeping costs.

Associated Press reported she told a Security Council meeting this week, “Peacekeeping is a shared responsibility. All of us have a role to play, and all of us must step up.”

The international group assessed the United States 28.5 percent of the $7.3 billion spending this year.

But that broke the 25 percent limit established in U.S. law and Haley informed the government officials in the U.N. that’s the cap, starting with this year’s peacekeeping budget.

But still, the second largest contributor, China, is told to pay only a bit over 10 percent.

In response, AP reported, spokesmen for Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres noted the 193 U.N. member states will decide the budget.

Currently, the U.N. peacekeeping operations involve some 105,000 troops and police in places ranging from Haiti to India and Pakistan.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: peacekeeping; un; unitednations
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To: rktman

Good. While we’re at it, boot their asses out of the U.S. They are anti-freedom and anti-sovereignty.


21 posted on 03/30/2018 8:53:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: proud American in Canada

UN headquarters should be in Moscow, Bejing, or Tehran.


22 posted on 03/30/2018 9:04:36 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: circlecity
member states will decide the budget

You may decide the budget, and we reserve the right to refuse to give you a plugged nickel. Just what are you going to do in the event we refuse, Mr. Secretary?

23 posted on 03/30/2018 9:28:42 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: circlecity
member states will decide the budget

You may decide the budget, and we reserve the right to refuse to give you a plugged nickel. Just what are you going to do in the event we refuse, Mr. Suck-u-tary?

24 posted on 03/30/2018 9:30:02 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: eccentric

Port-au-Prince.


27 posted on 03/30/2018 9:52:48 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: rktman
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28 posted on 03/30/2018 9:58:57 AM PDT by halfright (Deplorable in Florida...You can give peace a chance.... I'll cover you.)
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To: circlecity

Cut the UN to the bone...


29 posted on 03/30/2018 10:10:29 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Morning Joe and his Smiling Sycophants"... for times when only 'creepy' satisfies...)
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To: rktman

We need to leave the UN.
After our withdrawal, the UN should have 90 days to vacate US soil before their office building in Manhattan becomes a place to test fire munitions.


30 posted on 03/30/2018 10:11:56 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: rktman

May I suggest the U.N. relocating to Kandahar?

5.56mm


31 posted on 03/30/2018 10:14:14 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: EagleUSA

I disagree. There are many advantages to having the UN here....just not where it is now. Might I suggest a spot along our new Southern Border Wall, in a spot isolated enough to not cause any traffic problems. We could find it with the sale of the existing spot.


32 posted on 03/30/2018 10:40:41 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: rktman

I keep reading about how the German economy is booming, maybe instead of subsidizing a bunch of camel humping rapists they should pick up more of their share of defense.


33 posted on 03/30/2018 11:54:37 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: butlerweave

Yep, it’s basically an employment agency for third world soldiers and WE’RE paying 28% of the bill.


34 posted on 03/30/2018 1:42:07 PM PDT by Amberdawn (If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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To: halfright

Wouldn’t that be a hoot to see?


35 posted on 03/30/2018 10:35:53 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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