United Nations FFinancial Situation:
Status of U.S. Payments for 2003

As of November 17, 2003, the United States had paid the UN over $897 million in calendar year 2003, comprising the following:

    * $586 million for UN peacekeeping. Our current period assessments (through September 30),
      representing about 27 percent of the budgets, amount to $621 million.
    * $253.2 million for the UN Regular Budget*. Our calendar year 2003 assessment, representing 22 percent of the UN budget, is approximately $341 million, of which $229 million has already been paid. We expect to pay the remainder as soon as the fiscal year 2004 appropriation is enacted.
    * $52.5 million for the War Crimes Tribunals. Our calendar year 2003 assessments, representing about 25 percent of the budgets for the two tribunals (former Yugoslavia and Rwanda), amount to $57 million. We expect to pay the remaining $4.5 million balance shortly.
    * $5.5 million for design costs for the Capital Master Plan. This is our total calendar year 2003 assessment, which represents 22 percent of the total Capital Master Plan budget for 2003.


*$24.2 million relates to the balance of our calendar year 2002 assessment and $229 million relates to part of our calendar year 2003 assessment.

Ambassador Danforth: Remarks to the Press on his Tenure as U.S. Permanent Representative, December 3, 2004

Ambassador Danforth: Remarks to the Press (in his National Capacity) on Iraq and Security Council Reform, November 30, 2004

Howard Stoffer: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the UN Capital Master Plan, November 15, 2004
   
Candice Ebbesen-Ross: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on Program Planning, November 9, 2004
   
Ambassador Kennedy: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the UN Security Management System, November 4, 2004
   
Thomas Repasch: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, November 3, 2004

Benjamin Garcia: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the UN Common System, October 29, 2004
   
Thomas Repasch: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund, October 28, 2004

Benjamin Garcia: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on Human Resources Management, October 28, 2004

Ambassador Marsh: Statement in the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly on Questions Relating to Information, October 20, 2004

Thomas Repasch: Statement in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the Reports of the UN Board of Auditors, October 18, 2004

Stephen Rademaker: Statement in the First Committee of the General Assembly on the Test of Effective Multilateralism: Meeting the Dangers of the World with Resolve, October 8, 2004

Ambassador Siv: Statement in the General Assembly on Strengthening of the UN - Civil Society Participation, October 4, 2004

Ambassador Siv: Statement in the Second Committee of the General Assembly in General Debate, October 4, 2004

Tenth Anniversary Symposium of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services entitled "Governance, Leadership and Accountability", September 10, 2004

Values and Principles in UN Reform - Article by Assistant Secretary of State Holmes, September 3, 2004


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