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Ben Cardin: “It is hard for me to understand why our assessment on the peacekeeping is 28.36 percent, if I am correct, which is…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2015
It is hard for me to understand why our assessment on the peacekeeping is 28.36 percent, if I am correct, which is almost three times higher than the next country and is significantly higher than our general allocation for the U.N. budget.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the transparency of the U.N. budget allocation for peacekeeping.

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