Lebanon restores UN voting rights after paying dues
Lebanon has Tuesday its voting rights in the United Nations 193-member General Assembly, after paying its dues to the U.N.’s operating budget, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Lebanon needed to pay a minimum of $1,835,303 to restore its voting rights and was among six nations that had lost theirs.
The U.N. Charter states that members whose arrears equal or exceed the amount of their contributions for the preceding two full years lose their voting rights. But it also gives the General Assembly the authority to decide "that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the member," and in that case a country can continue to vote.
Source: Naharnet, Associated Press
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