Word: un
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout his speech, Tharoor stressed the need for the United States to pay the $1 billion it owes in unpaid UN dues...
Another stereotype is the idea that the UN is not cost-effective. To resolve the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the UN spent money equal to the value of two tankers worth of crude oil, he said...
...only is the United States the "only developed country to get a break" in UN dues--its dues are capped at 25 percent even though it constitutes 29 percent of the world economy--but the placement of the UN headquarters in New York City pumps $3.2 billion into the American economy each year...
...Tharoor, who has worked for the UN for over 20 years--ever since he received his Ph.D from Tufts at the age of 22--maintained that although he thinks some of the American critiques of the UN are on target, it is necessary to support the UN more, not less...
Kishan Putta, a student at the Kennedy School of Government, called Tharoor "a really good spokesman for the UN...