Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered at on 17 March 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what financial contribution his Department has made to each of the 16 UN peacekeeping operations which are underway.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office pays the United Kingdom’s assessed financial contributions to 16 United Nations peacekeeping operations. These payments are mandatory under the United Nations Charter. The United Nations apportions the UK’s share of contributions in accordance with United Nations General Assembly resolutions that determine the annual budget for each peacekeeping operations and the ‘Scale of Assessments’, which sets every United Nations member state’s percentage share of the United Nations Peacekeeping Budget. At present, the United Kingdom pays 5.8% of the cost of each mission, with the exception of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. These missions are funded from the United Nations Regular Budget, to which the United Kingdom currently contributes 4.5% of costs.
The table below provides the total budget and United Kingdom contribution to the 16 United Nations peacekeeping operations currently operational for financial year 2015/16:
Name of Peacekeeping Operation | Total PKO budget in FY2015/16 (UK contribution) in £ millions |
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara | 38.5 (2.0) |
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic | 571.6 (31.8) |
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali | 668.5 (37.5) |
305.3 (15.5) | |
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1001.3 (54.4) |
African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur | 812.9 (39.9) |
40.7 (2.2) | |
40.1 (1.2) | |
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon | 376.8 (20.9) |
208.9 (8.7) | |
30.3 (1.4) | |
271.8 (14.1) | |
793.9 (43.0) | |
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan | 6.9 (0.3) |
United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire | 316.5 (16.2) |
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization | 24.6 (1.2) |
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