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Financing United Nations Peace-keeping Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

F. A. M. Alting von Geusau
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The problem of financing the United Nations—a recurrent problem in fact since 1945—has become an acute financial and political one, since 1956. In November 1956 and in December 1960, the General Assembly decided to assess UN members part of the expenditures incurred for peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and Congo in accord with the scale approved for raising the ordinary annual budget.

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1965 , pp. 281 - 303
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1965

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