UN Financial Challenges and Member Dues

Uh, the Secretary-General has, as you know, repeatedly made clear the,

the problem, uh, both of non-payment of dues

by member states

and the,

the related problem of the UN being forced

to repay member states for

b-budget expenses that it does not, uh, that it, uh,

budget, budget money that it does not spend.

Uh, and, uh, so those two factors have, have put us

on an unsustainable trajectory. Although, uh, one-- more

than a hundred and fifty member states paid their dues last year, we

ended two thousand twenty-five with a record one point

fif-fifty-six billion dollars in outstanding dues, which

is more than double

that of the previous year.

So unless either the payments come in

or we're not, uh, uh, compelled

to spend-- uh, to return the mon- the, the monies that we are

not sp- able to spend because we didn't receive,

because we didn't receive

the budget.

Uh, unless one of those two things happen, we face a real danger of running out