But he said the United Nations needs adequate financing for its peacekeeping operations. "Again, we are committed to continuing our efforts to find savings and efficiency. And we're also committed to revisiting our peacekeeping operations, and we are absolutely not shy about recommending that they should be the downsized or terminated when we think that the situation evolves."

In a letter to member states in January 2019, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said peacekeeping budget arrears stood at nearly 2 billion U.S. dollars, more than a third of which was owed by the United States.

As of Jan. 1, 2019, the United States owed some 776 million dollars to the peacekeeping budget in addition to 381 million dollars to the separate regular UN budget.

The United States currently shoulders 28 percent of the UN peacekeeping budget. In addition to arrears, the United States also insists on paying no more than 25 percent of the UN peacekeeping budget, creating a 3-percent gap in the overall peacekeeping budget.

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