POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sinai Peninsula, Myocardial Infarction, Economic Community Of West African States
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If there are more mission with more troops, the budget is large of course. The current budget for the un peacekeeping operaion is . 47 billion (us). They do payments every year (un budget, and second payment to cover peacekeeping) Like the general un budget, some countries pay more and some countries pay less. If you are a large rich country you tend to pay more; vice versa. If you are part of the unsc, you pay more. Chart: top 15 un peacekeeping budget operaion allocaions. By far the largest share of the peacekeeping budget is the us (28%) At the other end of the spectrum are some of the world poorest country. For the poor countries, their donaion is just a symbolic gesture. Just because a country has been assigned a share of the budget, it doesn"t mean that it pays its share of the budget. What is the cost of u. n operaions? o o o o.