UK urges UN to be efficient and transparent, "win our trust"... and funding

UK urges UN to be efficient and transparent, “win our trust”... and funding

Thursday, September 21st 2017 - 06:59 UTC

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Theresa May has warned the United Nations that Britain could withhold up to 30% of its £90m core funding each year unless the organization reforms. The PM told delegates at the UN general assembly there was a gap between “the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery”. Read full article

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Brit Bob
Perhaps Mrs. May has the UN C24 Committee in mind?

This committee is made up of member states such as China, Russia, Iran, Syria and Cuba and is supposed to help territories achieve their potential. The committee doesn't even live up to the UN 's own policies on decolonization.

Falklands – UN C24 Committee:
https://www.academia.edu/11274445/Falklands_-_UN_C24_Committee
Sep 21st, 2017 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
The UN rarely lives up to anything it's supposed to do. Go back to 1982. British territory invaded, British people enslaved. And all the UN could come up with was a “resolution”. Argieland is still making the same illegitimate “claims” as it did back then. It attacked another UN member. Why is it still a member? If the “claim” was its “casus belli” it means that the Falkland Islands could be attacked and invaded at any moment.

And still the UN wanders around the world, pointing fingers and demanding that nations either give way over issues or spend more money. Sometimes both. But it never has to deal or live with the results.
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