India has voiced concern over the delays
in reimbursement to countries providing peacekeeping troops and police for UN
missions.
The First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN
Mahesh Kumar, on Thursday, said the situation calls for serious
introspection.
He was addressing a session on ‘Improving the Financial
Situation of the United Nations.’ Mr Kumar emphasised that India is among those
member states who continue to be owed significant sums towards troop and
Contingent Owned Equipment reimbursements.
The UN owes India 38 million US Dollars, among the
highest it has to pay to any country, for peacekeeping operations as of March
2019.
This was stated by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in
April in his report on improving the financial situation of the UN.
India’s share of the UN’s budget has been increasing in
recent years, including a 13 per cent increase from this year and the country
has been paying its share on time.
Earlier this year, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN
Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin had said that the financial situation of the United
Nations peacekeeping, particularly the non-payment or delayed payment of
arrears to the troop/ police-contributing countries, is a “cause for
concern”.
India voices concern over delays in reimbursement to peacekeeping countries
