World News | Lebanon, Gabon and South Sudan Regain UN Vote, Not Venezuela
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The president of the UN General Assembly announced Tuesday that Lebanon, Gabon and South Sudan made sufficient payments to restore their voting rights in the 193-member world body, leaving Venezuela as the only country that is barred from voting.
United Nations, Mar 8 (AP) The president of the UN General Assembly announced Tuesday that Lebanon, Gabon and South Sudan made sufficient payments to restore their voting rights in the 193-member world body, leaving Venezuela as the only country that is barred from voting.
President Csaba Korösi told a plenary meeting of the assembly that the three countries reduced their arrears to the UN regular budget below the amount specified in the UN Charter to cut off voting rights.
The Charter states that countries will be barred from voting if their arrears equal or exceed their assessed contribution to the UN budget for the previous two years.
Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said four countries remain in arrears but the General Assembly adopted a resolution in October giving three poor and conflict-torn countries -- the Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe, and Somalia – permission to vote until the end of the current session in September.
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That leaves only the fourth country, Venezuela, in arrears and unable to vote. (AP)
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