The World - News from Dec. 7, 1986

An international blue-ribbon panel studying the U.N. budget recommended that it be adopted by consensus rather than by majority vote as is the practice now. The group thus backed the position of the United States and other major budget contributors that any country should be be able to veto the budget. The 23-member panel warned that without budget reform, the United Nations would become “an aging body of declining relevance.” In October, the United States, angered by waste, mismanagement and hostility from many Third World countries, said it would pay only $100 million of its assessed $210-million share.