By R. Anil Kumar
-
India pays up $32M annual UN dues, getting place on ‘honour roll’
-
In a significant recognition of its commitment to international cooperation, India joined the Honour Roll of the United Nations for the year 2024
-
India has consistently held a position on the UN Honour Roll, a testament to the nation’s responsible and timely fulfillment of its financial commitments to the United Nations
United Nations, February 2. India’s deepening engagement with the United Nations is based on its steadfast commitment to multilateralism and dialogue as the key for achieving shared goals and addressing common challenges faced by the global community.
As a founding member of the United Nations, India strongly supports the purposes and principles of the UN and has made significant contributions to implementing the goals of the Charter, and the evolution of the UN’s specialized programmes and agencies.
India believes that the United Nations and the norms of international relations that it has fostered remain the most efficacious means for tackling today’s global challenges.
India is steadfast in its efforts to work with all Member States in the spirit of multilateralism to achieve comprehensive and equitable solutions to global challenges including those related to peace building and peacekeeping, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environment, climate change, terrorism, disarmament, human rights, health and pandemics, migration, cyber security, outer space and frontier technologies, and reformed multilateralism including the reform of the Security Council, among others.
In a significant recognition of its commitment to international cooperation, India joined the Honour Roll of the United Nations for the year 2024.
The Honour Roll comprises member states that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the United Nations by paying their assessed contributions to the UN’s Regular Budget within the stipulated 30 days of receiving a payment note from the UN.
For the fiscal year 2024, India’s assessed contribution of US$ 32,895,257 has been fully paid. This underscores India’s unwavering dedication to multilateralism and collaboration on the global stage.
India has consistently held a position on the UN Honour Roll, a testament to the nation’s responsible and timely fulfillment of its financial commitments to the United Nations. By ensuring the prompt payment of assessed contributions, India reaffirms its role as a responsible member of the international community, actively supporting the objectives and initiatives of the United Nations.
United Nations, February 2: India has paid its annual dues of $32.895 million to the UN’s general budget, according to Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
United Nations, India has paid its annual dues of $32.895 million to the UN’s general budget, according to Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
At his daily briefing on Thursday, he thanked New Delhi for the contribution which earned it a place on UN’s “honour roll”.
India is one of the only 36 countries among the UN’s 193 members to have paid its annual assessment for the UN’s general budget by the deadline on Wednesday, according to the UN General Assembly’s Committee on Contributions.
New Delhi’s total assessment for the general budget is $36.18 million but it is given a credit of $3.85 million, which is the credit from staff assessments — deductions made from the salaries of UN employees who are Indian nationals in lieu of income taxes, and credited to India.
India’s contribution makes up 1.044 per cent of the total regular budget of the UN of the UN’s budget of $3.59 billion.
The national contributions are calculated by a complex formula that is based on the size of the gross national income and offset by considerations of its “capacity to pay” based on low per capita income and external debt.
Because of the formula, India’s assessment is only 1.044 per cent of the UN’s budget of $3.465 billion.
The US is the biggest contributor to the UN’s regular budget, with an assessment of $762.43 million — 22 per cent of the total — followed by China, whose assessment is 15.25 per cent or $528.64 million.
The UN has separate budgets for capital works, tribunals and peacekeeping.
