UN chief orders travel, meetings, heat cut over cash crisis 0 SHARES Share it! But she said $1.386 billion is owed for this year by 65 countries — including more than $1 billion by the United States. “The cash deficits occur earlier in the year, linger longer and run deeper.”For the second successive year, she said, the U.N. has exhausted “all regular budget liquidity reserves,” despite several measures it has taken to reduce expenditures. According to figures Pollard presented Friday, the United States owes $1.055 billion to the U.N.’s regular budget compared with $842 million at the same time last year. And the U.N. will not support meetings outside regular hours of 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 11, 2019 23:03 UTC