HC Deb 01 February 1965 vol 705 c209W
Mr. Longden

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will publish a list containing the names of every member of the United Nations which, because its total arrears equal or exceed the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years, has now become liable to lose its vote in the General Assembly in accordance with the mandatory provision of Article 19 of the Charter.

Mr. George Thomson

According to United Nations General Assembly Document A/5847 of 18th January, 1965, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House, the following 16 Member States were on that date in arrears in the payment of their contributions to the United Nations, in amounts in excess of their assessed contributions for the preceding two full years:

  • Albania.
  • Belgium.
  • Bolivia.
  • Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Cuba.
  • Czechoslovakia.
  • France.
  • Haiti.
  • Hungary.
  • Paraguay.
  • Poland.
  • Rumania.
  • South Africa.
  • Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
  • Yemen.