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DISSENT: Paying Our Dues
For nearly three years, Washington's vote in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has been in jeopardy because of the United States' failure to pay nearly $1.6 billion in outstanding dues. Although this debt does not threaten our role in the UN's Security Council, relations between the United...
The contract agrees to pay $926 million to the United Nations over the next three years. But the dues will only be freed after Clinton yields to a Republican appeal to halt federal financing to international groups that promote abortion rights overseas.
The fragile relations between America and the UN make it crucial that the Clinton administration and Congress come to an agreement and quickly pay Washington's dues. America's UN debt has also been a major sticking point blocking a budget agreement between Congress and the White House.
It is short-sighted to link something as important as paying our UN dues to family planning policy. Clinton would be wrong to sign this agreement because the two issues should be kept separate. UN dues have no affect on our funding of family planning organizations abroad.