UN agrees to cut peacekeeping budget, a reduction US sought
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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly has agreed to a significant cut in the budget for the United Nations' far-flung peacekeeping missions, a reduction the Trump administration fought hard to achieve though it wanted an even larger decrease.
After lengthy and heated negotiations, the assembly's powerful budget committee agreed to a $7.3 billion budget for 14 peacekeeping missions for the year starting July 1.
The 193-member world body voted by consensus Friday to approve $6.8 billion. It agreed to an additional $500 million for two missions that are in the process of downsizing -- the joint U.N.-African Union mission in Sudan's western Darfur region and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
