1.1: Budgets
Bring discipline and restraint to UN budgets. Other Information:
The UN’s Regular Budget has nearly doubled over the last decade. Some—but not all—of the increase has been due to expanded
UN responsibilities (in, for example, Iraq and Afghanistan) and from other tasks that the United States has asked of the Organization.
But growth must be rooted in real world needs and constrained by real world realities. The recently-approved 2012/13 budget
– a five percent reduction, and one of only two UN budget reductions in 50 years – was a historic step. Over the next 18 months,
UN budgets through 2015 will be adopted, and the United States will push to continue this trend toward sustained and structural
fiscal discipline.
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