HC Deb 26 March 1974 vol 871 cc104-6W
Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those countries now in debt to the United Nations on (a) budget and (b) special or technical aid accounts.

Mr. Ennals

According to figures provided by the United Nations Secretariat the following countries had, at 28th February 1974, unpaid assessed contributions outstanding:

(a) to the United Nations Regular Budget up to the end of 1973:
Albania Jordan
Algeria Kenya
Argentina Khmer Republic
Bahamas Laos
Bolivia Lesotho
Brazil Maldives
Bulgaria Mali
Burundi Mauritius
Byelorussian SSR Mauritania
Cameroon Mongolia
Central African Nepal
Republic Nicaragua
Chad Nigeria
Chile Pakistan
Colombia Panama
Congo Paraguay
Costa Rica Peru
Cuba Poland
Czechoslovakia Portugal
Dahomey Romania
Dominican Republic Senegal
Ecuador South Africa
El Salvador Sudan
Equatorial Guinea Swaziland
France Syrian Arab Republic
Gabon Togo
Gambia Uganda
Guinea Ukrainian SSR
Guyana USSR
Haiti USA
Honduras Upper Volta
Hungary Uruguay
India Venezuela
Iraq Yemen
Israel Zaire.
Italy
(b) to Special Accounts:
(i) United Nations Emergency Force 1956–67, and United Nations Force in the Congo 1960–64
Afghanistan Dahomey
Albania Dominican Republic
Algeria Ecuador
Bolivia Egypt
Bulgaria El Salvador
Burundi France
Byelorussian SSR Guinea
Central African Haiti
Republic Hungary
Chad Iraq
Chile Jordan
China Lebanon
Congo Mali
Cuba Mexico
Czechoslovakia Mongolia
Panama Sudan
Paraguay Syrian Arab Republic
Peru Togo
Poland Uganda
Romania Ukrainian SSR
Rwanda USSR
Saudi Arabia Upper Volta
Senegal Uruguay
Somalia Yemen
South Africa Yugoslavia
Spain

The following members have outstanding assessed contributions to ONUC only:

Brazil Mauritania
Greece Nicaragua
Honduras Portugal

The following members have outstanding assessed contributions to UNEF only:

Australia Niger
Belgium Philippines
Cameroon Sierra Leone
Ivory Coast Thailand
Khmer Republic United Kingdom
Libyan Arab United States
Republic Venezuela

(ii) United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East (1973).

As of 28th February 1974, with the exception of Belgium, Bhutan, Canada, Denmark, Germany (Federal Republic of), Ghana, Guyana, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines and Sweden, all Member States were in arrears in respect of contributions to the United Nations Emergency Force (1973). Subsequently the United States, United Kingdom and France have paid their contributions in full.

Since technical aid is financed largely by voluntary contributions, members who do not contribute to the extent of their pledges cannot be regarded as being in debt to the organisation concerned.