The United Nations has quietly upped this year’s peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, with two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.
The world organization plans to spend the money on an expanded force of some 12,675 soldiers and police, plus some 479 international staffers, 669 international contract personnel, and 1,300 local workers, just for the 12 months ending June 30, 2010.
Some $495.8 million goes for salaries, benefits, hazard pay, mandatory R&R allowances and upkeep for the peacekeepers and their international staff support. Only about $33.9 million, or 4.6 percent, of that salary total is going to what the U.N. calls “national staff” attached to the peacekeeping effort.
[Via Jack Liberty]
#15 what the hell is viola!
I thought that “looked weird” myself.
Hah, hah. Good one.
The UN is and has been for the most part an utter failure.After the enormous bloodshed and useless futility of World War I nearly every political leader from around the world promised their people it would never happen again. The League of Nations was formed which morphed into the United Nations.There isn’t one aspect of the United Nations that worked.Its institutionalized and accepted failure and a ridiculous rubber stamp that allows Nations to say we are trying and then do something that’s just past nothing but so far short of anything meaningful its a joke.The UN is responsible for the enormous suffering in North Korea they have allowed a criminal dictator to seal off the country while they have done nothing for 50 years.They have done nothing to solve the Israel and Palestine problem,nuclear weapons are spreading,starvation, Aids and other preventable diseases are on the march. The General assembly needs the final say not the Security Council.Each nation should get as weighted vote based on its population. At least then we could get or hope to get world consensus.UN Ambassadors should be elected, not appointed.
Lee==the UN works just the way the USA wants it to.
Stupid Hooman.