UK Prime Minister Theresa May has threatened to withhold one-third of her country’s annual funding for the United Nations if the world body fails to “win our trust.”
Speaking to delegates at the 72nd UN General Assembly on Wednesday, May said Wednesday that her country was ready to make at least 30 percent of its “generous” £90 million annual core funding for the UN’s agencies conditional.
“The UN and its agencies must win our trust in proving to us and to the people we represent that they can deliver,” she said. “And that is why we will remain generous in our funding but set aside 30% to be paid only to those parts of the UN that achieve sufficient results.”
The reforms were not just “technical,” May argued, adding that the UN should undergo change in a way that it can “truly respond to the global challenges of the 21st century.”
The British PM complained that the international body had failed in practice to…