UN peacekeeping missions to implement contingency measures for funding shortfalls

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In late June, the UN General Assembly approved a 5.38 billion dollars' budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year.
54% : Speaking to reporters at a background briefing, the official said UN peacekeeping arrears exceeded 2 billion U.S. dollars at the current budget cycle starting from July 2025.
45% : "We have no choice but to implement the plans to prevent the financial collapse of the operations, and we obviously profoundly regret having to do this, but we have, again, no other option," the official said. UN peacekeeping missions will have to identify cost reductions equal to 15 percent of their budgets, to be implemented during a nine-month period, the official said.

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