Nikki Haley, the current United States Ambassador to the United Nations, announced on Tuesday, 26th of December, that the American government is cutting a significant amount of its UN budget obligations. In a statement issued by the US mission to the UN, it has been indicated that the next year's budget will be missing $ 285 million. «We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of», said Haley. This measure comes five days after the UN General Assembly condemned the recognition of Al-Quds as the capital of Israel. At the end of the vote on December 21, the diplomat threatened stating that her country would remember the vote of the 128 countries in favor of the UN resolution, «when [it] will be asked again to make the largest financial contribution» to the UN. Trump's administration executed the threats made last week by the US president. «Let them vote against us… We'll save a lot. We don't care. But this isn't like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars», he said. The cuts announced Tuesday by Nikki Haley are the second of their kind in the last six months. At the end of June, and under the pressure of Trump administration, the UN reduced down to 7.5 percent, $ 600 million, the budget allocated to peacekeeping operations around the world in 2018. Is Washington going to sanction the 128 states ? For teh record, Morocco was one of the countries that voted at the General Assembly for the resolution denouncing the recent declaration of President Donald Trump and urging the U.S. to «drop its recognition» of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel.
