United Nations Headquarters in New YorkUN, Jan 26 The UN stated that the United States remains the largest debtor to the budgets of the World Organization, and this creates difficulties for the work of the secretariat. The comment of the Russian mission was published in response to the release of the US Permanent Mission dated January 20, which listed «facts» about the «restoration of American leadership in the UN in the first year of Joe Biden's presidency.» «In the budgetary sphere, against the backdrop of the declared successes of the US delegation, we would like to draw attention to the fact that this state still remains the largest debtor to the UN budgets,» the Russian mission said in a commentary. that the delay in payment and the scale of the US debt (usually about a billion dollars annually) bring many difficulties to the work of the UN secretariat. In addition, the Russian permanent mission states that «illegitimate foreign sanctions against a number of developing states create obstacles for them to pay their contributions to the UN and deprive them of the right to vote in the General Assembly. US in hypocrisy that undermines UN values
