The current cash balance for the United Nations regular budget is "only sufficient to meet legal obligations through the middle of August" — not through December — the Organization's top management official told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), urging Member States either to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time or to fundamentally overhaul the UN's financial rules to avert imminent collapse.

THE UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has warned France that any political or constitutional reforms concerning New Caledonia must proceed only with the free, prior, and informed consent of the Indigenous Kanak people. The post UN warns France over New Caledonia decolonization process appeared first on Islands Business .