The UN would be a bunch of guys sitting around in their blue hats if it weren't for the extraordinary resources America has given them. They owe us.
Who Owes Whom?
by Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid is a journalist who writes frequently on UN affairs. He is president of America's Survival, Inc.,
and director of the American Sovereignty Action Project.
Executive Summary
Claims that the United States owes the United Nations more than $1 billion are false. No legal debt exists or can exist. The UN Charter does not empower the organization to compel payment from any member state.
Even the notion that the United States owes money in the sense of a moral obligation is fallacious. It ignores the military and other assistance that the Clinton administration has provided the UN and for which the United States has not been properly credited or reimbursed. Over the past five years, that assistance has amounted to at least $11 billion, and perhaps as much as $15 billion. The administration has been diverting funds from federal agencies, especially the Department of Defense, to the United Nations.
Allegations of debt have distracted attention from a disturbing administration policy of providing resources, personnel, and equipment to the UN without the advance approval of Congress. In effect, the administration and the UN have been conducting important elements of U.S. foreign and military policy and bypassing Congress's power of the purse. That tendency raises grave constitutional concerns.
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I want my change!
And, I don't care if this guy heads the Soverienty Project or sells beer on Mars, the figures are accurate.