UN Peacekeeping Chief Seeks Chinese Support Amid Washington Funding Squeeze

The United Nations can count on China’s support, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said in Beijing as he flagged the body’s financial strains – due in large part to Washington’s funding squeeze.

Lacroix warned that the global body’s financial situation “is concerning member states” and it cannot be expected to deliver the same results with “steadily fewer resources, reduced mobility and a shrinking field presence”.

He said the UN had a responsibility to be “efficient, disciplined, transparent and accountable” when using the pooled resources of member states.