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By BRUCE MUNN
United Praas International
I United Nations, N.Y. -(UPD
- The time has com
'when the United Nations
) must face to a major de
, cision can it go on being
i the world's policeman?
The General Assembly
meets In special session
I Tuesday to discuss financ
ing of the $100 million debt
'into which the 110-nation
' UN has been driven by the
. costly peacekeeping activi-
ties in the Congo and the
Middle East.
Secretary Gen eral
Thant's authorization to pay
for those operations expires
' June 30. By that time, vir
tually all of the $130,188,-.
: 000 raised by last year's
emergency bond issue will
have been used up and the
organization will again be
on the verge of bankruptcy. ,
No Quarrel of Purpose
There is no quarrel with
' the prime stated purpose
', in the UN charter: "To
. maintain international .
peace and security."
' The difliculty lies in how
' International peace and se
curity are maintained, for
the political overtones tend
to become paramount as
they did in the Congo, and
who will pay for it.
The problem is a funda
mentally human as a town
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meeting discussion of new
curbs for the village street.
No taxpayer wants to pay
more than he has to and
each wants to see his own
interests taken care of.
The UN is carrying on
its books debits against its
members of $200,322,587.03
(according to its latest fi
nancial statement dated
March 31). Of this, $72,
639,087.14 is unpaid assess
ments for the Congo opera
tion. An additional $27,388,
495.97 is due for the UN
emergency force (UNEF) on
duty between Israel and
Egypt since 1956, making
a total arrearage due of
$100,027,583.11 for the two
peace - keeping operations.
The other $100,295,003.92
is due against assessments
for the regular budget.
Paid on Assessment
. Only 32 of the 110 UN
members are paid up on
their Congo assessments
and only 46 on their con
tributions for UNEF.
Russia and the Commu
nist bloc are the chief of
fenders. The Soviet defense
for non - payment is that
only the Security Council,
in which Moscow is one of
the five veto powers, can
appropriate money for
peace - keeping operations
and, anyway, the "aggres
sor" nations should be nit
with the full bill for such
UN activities.
What it amounts to, es
pecially in the case of the
Congo, is that the opera
tion did not work out to
the Russians' interest or
the interest of several oth
er non - paying countries
and it seemed bad busi
ness to them to have to pay
for such activities.
Russia, France, Belgium
and a number of other
countries refusing to pay
held that they were liable
only for their assessments
under the regular budget
and that such costs as those
for the Congo could not
be made their legal respon
sibility. Into Regular Budget
But the assembly last
year voted to put the costs
of peace - keeping opera
tions into the regular budg
et. Then it applied to the
World Court, which hand
ed down an advisory opin
ion that such costs are, in
deed, a rightful part of the
regular budget and a legal
obligation of all members.
There will be much talk
In the months to come about
Article 19 of the UN Char
ter. It provides that any
member behind in its pay.
ments "shall have no vote
in the General Assembly if
the amount of its arrears
equals or exceeds the
amount of contributions due
from it for the preceding
two years.
At least 10 countries
stand in danger of losing
their votes under Article
19 at the upcoming special
session. Hitherto, there has
been no challenge case. De
linquent countries - Bolivia
was the classic case of the
past - absented themselves
at voting time until they
could catch up on their ar
rcarages.
The United States was re
ported ready to enforce the
rule against several coun
tries, notably Hungary and
Cuba, even at the risk of
penalizing some Western
Hemisphere nations such as
Bolivia and Haiti.
Medford Man Wins
State Essay Contest
Stearns Cushing, labor mar
ket analyst for the Medford
office of the Oregon state em
ployment service, was name.
first place winner in the an.
nual state essay contest con.
ducted by International Asso
ciation of Personnel Employ
ment Security.
The announcement w a
made at the annual institute
in Eugene recently.
The subject of the statewide
contest was, "How Employ
ment Security Benefits the
Community."
Second place went to Rob
ert Harvic, Roscburg, and
third place to Jim Dyer, Klam
ath Falls.
The three top essays were
entered in the international
essay contest. The winner will
be announced at the IAPES
50th anniversary convention
in Chicago in July.
Cushing is the labor mar
ket analyst for the southern
Oregon area.
Stanley Bonkowski, former
ly of Medford, and now man-
agcr of the Lakeview employ
ment olfice was elected direc
tor for the southern Oregon
district at the recent meeting.
He succeeds Don Stiffler,
Grants Pass.
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Some UN legal authori
ties hold that no discus
sion or ballot Is required
to take away a delinquent's
vote. They argue that the
action is automatic. How
ever, the charter provides
that the assembly may per
mit a delinquent country to
vote "if it is satisfied that
the failure to pay is be
yond the control of the
member." In such instance,
a vote would be required.
Little hope is held that
the special session ex
pected to last three weeks
to a month will decide
on a permanent clan for
financing future peacekeep
ing operations. The United
States and most of the West
ern powers will be satis
fied with meeting the costs
for the next six months and
leaving the future for next
fall's regular assembly ses
sion to wrestle with.
A 21-power working com
mittee met privately
throughout the early part
of this year and finally re-
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ported that it was unable to
agree on any financing plan.
The United States, which
has paid close to SO per
cent of the Congo costs to
date, Jolted the committee
with a blunt announce
ment that It henceforth
would pay only l' sssessed
share of 32.02 per cent
and not a penny more
unless there was a decided
movement among the chron
ic non - payers to shoulder
their share. '
. Appears To Be Retreating
Now, however, the United
States appeared to be re
treating from this "ungiv
ing" position. t
It appeared to be in
fluenced by historical argu
ments of the Latin Amer
icans dating back to the
1945 San Francisco confer
ence. Eighteen years ago, when
the late Sen. Arthur H.
Vandenberg fought for a
25 per cent ceiling on the
contribution by any mem
ber to VH costs, the Latin
Americans said they were
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MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
assured that peace keeping
expenses would be borne
by the big five Security
Council members and they
would never be assessed for
such activities.
Vandenberg lost his fight. .
A 40 per cent ceiling was
set at the time And noth
ing appeared in writing to
guarantee the smaller pow
ers against peacekeeping
assessments.
Ability to Pay
Another argument is that
UN financial philosophy is
based on assessment accord
ing to ability to pay. On
the basis of per capita in
come, it is argued, the Unit
ed States, instead of pay
ing the 32.02 per cent it
, now is assessed, ( should
rightfully pay closer to 45
per cent of ail UN costs.
The United States was
veering toward a version of
a proposal put befoT the
committee of 21 known us
the British "three bite
plan."
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an initial sum of perhaps
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$10 million for each peace
keeping , operation would
be levied against all mem
bers on the regular scale of
assessments - which ranges
from the U.S. top of 32.02
. per cent to .04 per cent for
the least wealthy members.'
The balance also would
be fully assessed, but with
lower rates on the less de
veloped countries. These
countries now are given an
80 per cent reduction on
their assessments, and the
general thought was that
such a reduction In the fu
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SO per cent of the going
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The "three bite plan"
would mean that the United
States would have to re
lent in its threat to pay
no more that 32.02 per cent.
In 1962 the United States
paid $205,144,067 to the UN
and related agencies.
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