Iran owes $16.2 million, more than any other country.
https://www.jpost.com-By LAHAV HARKOV
Iran blamed US sanctions for blocking the Islamic Republic from paying its required contribution to the UN.
Iran owes $16.2 million, more than any other country.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said the funds designated for UN payments are frozen in two South Korean banks, due to US sanctions. He said the Islamic Republic has a total of $7 billion in those banks.
Khatibzadeh demanded that the UN guarantee the payments are safely transferred without using US banks.
“Given that the United States has encroached upon Iran’s international assets before, the Islamic Republic of Iran insists that the UN not use an American intermediary bank to receive our country’s membership fee, or that this organization guarantee the financial transfer channel,” Iran International News quoted Khatibzadeh as saying.
Three more countries – Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia – will be allowed to continue to vote despite missing dues payments, because they sufficiently demonstrated that they are incapable of paying.