UN starts 2012 with the commitment of "doing more with less"

UN will close this week "a difficult year" economically and begin committed to "doing more with less", once the General Assembly approve the second budget cut in the history of the Agency to give green light to a few accounts of 5,150 million dollars for the next biennium 2012.

"The Governments and peoples go wrong everywhere." It is time for a global financial austerity. "It is imperative to do more with less," summed up the general Secretary of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, after that, after weeks of negotiations, the Agency approved the weekend budgets for the period 2012-2013

Ban recognized that 2012 had been "a difficult year" in the economic sphere throughout the world and reaffirmed its commitment at the head of the UN "get the most out of resources, cut what is extra and continue at the same time with the crucial mandates that United Nations receives confidently".

Well u000areacted the Secretary general to the adoption of the new budgets of the Agency after negotiations in which United States and Europeans affected by the crisis pushed for cuts to the demands of the developing countries of development by maintaining the level of the accounts.

The budget negotiations are always marked as they recalled diplomatic sources, the discussions among developed countries, which are those who contribute most to the Agency, and other countries, pushing the UN to keep the level of investment in programs of development.

The main source of income of the United Nations are the contributions of member countries, which share the financial burden on the basis of the size of their economies, which explains that the 20 richest countries in the world pay about 90 percent of the budget.

United States is the country that contributes to the UN budgets and assumes u000aspecifically about 22 per cent of accounts

The outcome of the negotiations was on this occasion an agreement that left the budgets at 5,150 million dollars, below the 5.410 million approved for 2010-2011 and also slightly below the 5.197 billion dollars proposed by Member States Ban the last October.

It's the second time in the history of the international body, according to recall diplomats responsible for negotiations, that the General Assembly approves a budget less than its precedent.

"Give instructions to all my managers so that they continue to find new ways to get as much with our precious resources." "I will make sure that I can optimize the contributions", was the key to the austerity message sent by the head of the United Nations to the members of the Agency.

The President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, until the Nasser Abdulaziz, u000aIt also welcomed the agreement reached between the 193 countries that make up the body and applauded "firm and constructive engagement" of all delegations to reach a consensus before "the challenges presented by the global financial crisis".

The regular UN budget covers expenses of the Organization, as well as their political activities but does not include those of its major agencies or missions of peace, which they have their own budgets.

Budgets were adopted in a number of resolutions of the General Assembly which also gave green light to the accounts of various missions of the Agency, such as those that are deployed in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), the interim security force United Nations Abyei (UNISFA) or stabilization of Sudan from the South (UNMISS).

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