"US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said Thursday that the United States will cut funding for the UN Human Right Council and for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the administration's latest blow against the United Nations.
'We are going to de-fund the Human Rights Council,' Bolton said in an interview with the Associated Press, while warning that other UN agencies could also be up for cuts in US funding.
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The move announced by Bolton would mean the Human Rights Council will lose one of its largest donors.
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Bolton rejected claims by some UN officials who insist the council gets its funding through the regular UN budget - meaning that its operating expenses can't be specifically targeted.
The United States pays about 22 percent of the UN budget - its largest single donor - as part of what's known as an 'assessment' based on economic weight and other factors.
'We'll calculate 22 percent of the Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner's budget, and our remittances to the UN for this budget year will be less 22 percent of those costs - and we'll say specifically that's what we're doing,' Bolton said. 'We expect that impact to occur on the Human Rights Council.'..."