United Press Today reported: "UN Secretary-General's spokesperson Dujarric said on Thursday that if the United States continues to withhold UN dues, it may lose its voting rights in the UN General Assembly at some point."
Dujarric confirmed on Thursday (January 8) during a press conference that the United States did not pay its dues last year.
Comments: The US accounts for more than 90% of the total unpaid dues worldwide. The US's failure to pay dues is not an accident, but rather a consistent practice of "using the UN when it is useful and abandoning it when it is not." It has previously threatened to cut dues multiple times due to dissatisfaction with UN resolutions. This time, the non-payment of dues essentially uses economic means to force the UN to comply with the US's demands.
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