{"id":1351632,"date":"2026-01-30T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/un-on-the-brink-of-financial-collapse-due-to-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:24:38","slug":"un-on-the-brink-of-financial-collapse-due-to-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/un-on-the-brink-of-financial-collapse-due-to-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"UN on the brink of financial collapse due to debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned member states about the threat of imminent financial collapse of the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reuters reports<\/a> this.<\/p>\n

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In a letter dated January 28, Guterres noted that the financial crisis at the UN is deepening due to non-payment of contributions by states and a budget rule that obliges the organization to return unused funds to countries.<\/p>\n

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“The crisis is deepening, jeopardizing the implementation of programs and creating the risk of financial collapse. The situation will only worsen in the near future,” the Secretary General emphasized.<\/p>\n

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According to him, by the end of 2025, member states’ arrears in contributions could reach a record $1.57 billion. In this case, the UN risks running out of funds by July.<\/p>\n

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The organization’s financial difficulties intensified after its largest donor, the United States, sharply reduced voluntary funding for UN agencies and refused payments to the regular and peacekeeping budgets.<\/p>\n

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In addition, US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to create a so-called Peace Council<\/a> , which he said could replace the UN. He also noted that the organization, in his opinion, has not been effective enough in resolving armed conflicts.<\/p>\n

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As previously reported, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, during a press conference, answered a question from a Russian journalist regarding the possibility of applying the principle of self-determination to temporarily occupied Crimea and Donbas.<\/a><\/p>\n

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned member states about the threat of imminent financial collapse of the United Nations. Reuters reports this. In a letter dated January 28, Guterres noted that the financial crisis at the UN is deepening due to non-payment of contributions by states and a budget rule that obliges the organization to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1351656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1351632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1351656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}