According to US media reports on the 21st, the US government has notified Congress that it plans to pay 850 million US dollars to the United Nations to repay part of its arrears in UN membership fees and other payments. According to a notice submitted to members of Congress this month by the Associated Press, the US State Department plans to allocate 725 million US dollars to pay UN membership fees and 125 million US dollars to support UN peace operations in Haiti and the Congo. The report said that the total amount of funds owed by the United States to the United Nations is about 5 billion US dollars, including over 2 billion US dollars in membership fees and about 3 billion US dollars for peacekeeping operations.

According to US media reports on the 21st, the US government has notified Congress that it plans to pay 850 million US dollars to the United Nations to repay part of its arrears in UN membership fees and other payments. According to a notice submitted to members of Congress this month by the Associated Press, the US State Department plans to allocate 725 million US dollars to pay UN membership fees and 125 million US dollars to support UN peace operations in Haiti and the Congo. The report said that the total amount of funds owed by the United States to the United Nations is about 5 billion US dollars, including over 2 billion US dollars in membership fees and about 3 billion US dollars for peacekeeping operations.