The new US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has pledged to overhaul the world body and warned US allies that she will be “taking names” of countries that do not support Washington. France’s UN ambassador, François Delattre, and his British UN counterpart, Matthew Rycroft, said they looked forward to working with Haley. The United States, Britain and France, along with Russia and China, are permanent veto-wielding members of the UN security council. Donald Trump may pose an existential threat to the United Nations | Howard Stoffer Read moreThe United States is the largest contributor to the United Nations, paying 22% of the $5.4bn core UN budget and 28% of the $7.9bn UN peacekeeping budget. Trump, who had called on Barack Obama’s administration to veto the resolution, warned that “things will be different” at the United Nations after he took office.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2017 18:15 UTC