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United States Votes Against UN Budget, Breaking Recent Tradition of Consensus on Budgets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 355 - 356
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008 

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References

1 U.N. Approves Budget; Only U.S. Casts ‘No’ Vote , Wash. Post, Dec. 23, 2007, at A8Google Scholar.

2 A UN press release describing the vote on the budget resolution, as well as on several other resolutions where the United States cast the sole dissenting vote, is at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/gal0684.doc.htm>.

3 Unresolved budget items of concern to the United States reportedly included the secretary–general’s proposals for a new, more secure building to house UN operations in Baghdad, and funding to expand the UN Department of Political Affairs. Edith, M. Lederer, General Assembly Approves UN Budget , Dec. 22, 2007 Google Scholar, at <http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007–12–22–1952379469_x.htm>.

4 Id.

5 [Editor’s Note: A “PBI” is a statement of program budget implications. UN rules require a statement identifying additional costs associated with a proposed new UN activity, prior to a vote to authorize that activity.]

6 USUN Press Release No. 387(07), Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Mark Wallace, on Agenda Item 128: Questions Relating to the Proposed Program Budget for the Biennium 2008–2009, in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly (Dec. 22, 2007), at <http://www.un.int/usa/press_releases/20071222_387.html>.

7 UN Secretary–General Press Release No. SG/SM/11348, Secretary–General Welcomes Budget, Urges Return to Consensus Decision–Making (Dec. 24, 2007), at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsm11348.doc.htm>.