Title
General Assembly Adopts 2013/14 Peacekeeping Budget Approaching $8 Billion for 14 Operations, Acting On Fifth Committee Recommendations (Press Release), GA/11390
Note
The UN has been given a new infusion of 7.5 billion dollars for its "peacekeeping" budget from July 2013 to June 2014. Among the recipients is the "Interim Force in Lebanon" (UNIFIL) which presides over Hezbollah's (and Iran's) rearmament and the systematic use of the Lebanese population as human shields. The new 520 million to UNIFIL was adopted over the objections of Canada, Israel and the United States (the vote was 126 for, 3 against). Israel-bashers managed to include in the UNIFIL resolution a provision demanding Israel pay for damage to a UN site in Lebanon (on the logic that of self-defense should be fined and aggression rewarded).