Eight states, including Venezuela, Iran Y Sudan, they lost their right to vote on the HIM-HER-IT due to a excessive debt with the organization, announced Tuesday night the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to the members of the general Assembly.
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Venezuele loses voting rights in the UN due to moratorium on payments
Total, 11 Member States are currently in must in the payment of their contributions depending on the article 19 from Letter from the United nationsYes, the UN chief said in his letter obtained Wednesday.
This article provides for the suspension of voting rights in the General Assembly of any country whose amount of arrears is equal to or greater than the contribution owed by it during the last two full years.
If the non-compliance is due to “circumstances beyond its control”, a State referred to in article 19 may, however, retain its right to vote.
This is the case for 2022 for the islands of Comoros, São Tomé and Príncipe and Somalia, Guterres specifies.
Besides Iran, Sudan and Venezuela, the other five countries that have lost their voting rights are Antigua and Barbuda, Congo, Guinea, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, it adds.
The secretary general specified the minimum amount that each country must pay to regain its right to vote: Venezuela regarding 40 million dollars, Iran regarding 18 million and Sudan regarding 300 thousand.
The annual budget of the UN, approved in December, is around 3 billion dollars and that of its peacekeeping missions around 6.5 billion.
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