Paying What We Owe to the UN Posted by Suzanne Nossel

The Administration has taken the right position by firmly opposing conditions that would result in withholding of U.S. dues to the UN.  For background Rep. Henry Hyde's UN Reform Act of 2005 which is to be voted on tomorrow, and for an explanation of why withholding U.S. dues is such a bad idea, see here.  This issue has not received a lot of mainstream media attention since the bill was first debated last week, but fresh U.S. arrears to the UN would do grave damage to both the health of the UN and to the cause of reform.   A group of 8 former U.S. Ambassadors to the UN, including both Democrats and Republicans, signed an open letter to that effect yesterday.

I am looking forward to how the Administration squares its opposition to dues withholdings with the position taken by John Bolton who wrote in 1999 that:

On U.S. arrears to the UN, Bolton proclaimed, "[M]any Republicans in Congress--and perhaps a majority--not only do not care about losing the General Assembly vote but actually see it as a 'make my day' outcome. Indeed, once the vote is lost… this will simply provide further evidence to may why nothing more should be paid to the UN system."

Has the man Jesse Helms hoped to meet in Armageddon changed his tune on this?

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