Japan Plans to Reduce Financial Support
From Times Wire Reports
Japan, the second-biggest financier of the United Nations, wants to cut its contributions, a Japanese U.N. official said. Tokyo contributed about $263 million to the U.N. budget in 2003 and pays hundreds of millions more for peacekeeping, development and other programs.
The United States is the only country that pays more, giving more than $300 million.
A Japanese Finance Ministry official tied the planned reduction to an economic slowdown.
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