Friday, 25 December 2015

China to become third-largest contributor to UN regular budget

                
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 24-- China is going to be the third-largest contributor to UNregular budget 2016-2018, with its assessed contribution accounting for 7.9 percent, said asenior Chinese diplomat here Wednesday.

The Chinese contribution to the total UN membership dues ranks the third among 193member states of the world body, just next to the United States and Japan, said WangMin, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.

China's assessed contribution to peacekeeping budget will be 10.2 percent in the next threeyears, said Wang, noting that China will become the second-largest contributor to UNpeacekeeping budget, only next to the United States.

With the new assessment, China's contribution to UN peacekeeping budget will overtakeJapan for the first time, he noted.

China's membership dues and its assessed contribution to peacekeeping budget have beenincreased substantially, said Wang, adding that the increase has reflected China's steadyeconomic growth over the past 30 years.

This increase is an objective reflection of China's national strength in the internationalsystem, Wang said, adding that China, as the second-largest economy in the world, isrequired to share more of the UN regular budget and peacekeeping budget.

This also symbolizes a big increase of China's international influence, he said.

Wang also said the new assessment has also taken into account that China is still adeveloping country.

Although China's economic aggregate is large, its per capita level is low, and thereforeChina, without any doubt, is a developing country, which is an important basis forassessing China's capability to pay, he said.

Wang reiterated that as long as the calculation method for membership dues is fair, justand reasonable, China is willing to fulfill its budgetary obligation, and to shoulder itsspecial responsibility in the respect of peacekeeping budget as a permanent member of theUN Security Council.

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