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A triennial rite
The United Nations General Assembly concluded its pre-holiday work Friday by scrutinizing every aspect of how the U.N. budget is paid .. and then leaving it alone. Negotiations over the contentious scale of assessments involve complex formulas that apportion the nearly $2 billion annual budget from roughly 0.001 percent for the Comoros to some 16.6 percent for second-largest contributor, Japan.See the full content of this document
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The U.N. Report [Derived Headline]
The United States will be assessed $428 million for 2007, although Washington won't pay it until nearly next December, if recent history is repeated. U.S. diplomats said their only ...
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