&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "US to make $850mn payment out of its $4bn+ outstanding UN dues")
US has announced that it will pay $850 million of roughly $5 billion in outstanding UN dues. The largest payment of the Trump administration to the global body, since it criticised the UN for not living up to its potential and slashed funding to many of its agencies. The US State Department has laid out plans to send $725 million to the regular UN budget, and $125 million toward UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The allocation of funds comes ahead of an expected speech by US President Donald Trump to the UN General Assembly in New York next month.
It was mentioned in the August 4 State Department notification letter to Congress. US official said any payment will be contingent on the continued reform of the organisation.
“Over the past six months, the United States has achieved historic reforms across the UN- reforms long considered impossible - including the first real budget cut in UN history, resulting in nearly one billion in cuts,” said a US State Official to Reuters.
Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the organisation faced "imminent financial collapse" due to unpaid contributions from the member states.
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According to a Reuters report, the UN had been counting on collecting 90 per cent of its dues from 193 member states. According to Reuters, a UN report shows that roughly 129 nations have paid in full as of August 18, 2026.
The $725 million would be less than 20 per cent of the more than $4 billion that the UN said in May that the United States owed. It owes more than $2.04 billion toward the regular budget, $2.2 billion for current and past peacekeeping missions and $44 million for UN tribunals.
"If the US does not make further payments, it will likely lose its voting rights in January," said Eugene Chen, a former UN official. Under Article 19 of the UN Charter, a member state loses its voting rights in the General Assembly if its arrears exceed two years in annual fees. He said that this recent transfer would allow the UN to pay salaries and stay afloat for a period. US contributes around 22 per cent of the UN regular budget; China is second, at roughly 20 per cent. Both the US and China have not paid their dues in full.
