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    Page 6 • Wednesday, June 23, 1999
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The*
near-unanimous approval y' es,e £
lation to pay nearly $1 billionofu
longstanding debt to the Unitedl
conditioned it on a reductionint®
sessments.
Richard Holbrooke, Preside
nominee to be U.N. ambass^oh
ly promised to support the low??;
share and to fight in New Yorkic|
cutting changes sought by U- y
" Budgetary discipline will
be my watchword,” Hoi'
brooke told the Senate For- Jj
eign Relations Committee.
On a 98-1 tally, the Senate
approved a State Department
bill that would reduce the
maximum U.S. share of the
regular U.N. budget from the
present 25 percent to 20 per
cent. It would also drop tb®
U.S. share of peacekeepingopem
percent to 25 percent.
In exchange, the bill wouldtre
of $819 million in U.S. debtstc
Nations over thret years afljl
million that the United Nitios
United States, for a tola) rePW
of $926 million.
The United Nations has' v ®tel
States that it will lose its Genes
voting rights if at least $250 nfcj
dues is not paid by December
States has been late on its M®
past 13 years.
The overall measure, a $6-4b£
State Department spending bi
the House, where similar legist
became snarled in an unrelated
abortion. Such an entangleme:
possibility again this year.
U.N. Secretary-General Km
corned the Senate’s approval old-
partial payment of U.S. arrearstoc:
tions, U.N. spokesperson FredEck
"He hopes that this will be a fe
(he United States making good’® d
to the United Nations,” Eckharfsa
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