The budget \u2013 approved by the 193-member General Assembly on Tuesday \u2013 authorizes \u00a0$3,450,426,300 for the coming year, covering the Organization\u2019s three core pillars of work: peace and security, sustainable development and human rights.<\/p>\n
The budget largely reflects the Secretary-General\u2019s proposed 15 per cent reduction in financial resources and a nearly 19 per cent cut in staffing.<\/p>\n
The regular budget finances the UN\u2019s core activities, including political affairs, international justice and law, regional cooperation for development, human rights, humanitarian affairs and public information.<\/p>\n
It is separate from the United Nations peacekeeping budget, which operates on a 1 July to 30 June fiscal cycle, while the regular budget follows the calendar year.<\/p>\n
Consensus after intense negotiations<\/p>\n
Addressing delegates as the Fifth Committee \u2013 the Assembly\u2019s main administrative and budget body \u2013 wrapped up negotiations, UN Controller Chandramouli Ramanathan praised the Committee for steering a complex and compressed process to a timely conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a year of challenges,\u201d he said, noting that the Secretariat had been tasked with assembling an entire budget in less than six weeks, producing hundreds of tables and responding to thousands of questions from oversight bodies and Member States.<\/p>\n
He underscored that, despite often arduous negotiations, the Committee had once again reached agreement by consensus, a hallmark of the budgetary process. \u201cThat is something remarkable that you should not underestimate,\u201d he told delegates.<\/p>\n
Challenges ahead \u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, the Controller warned that the adoption of the budget marks the beginning \u2013 not the end \u2013 of a demanding implementation phase. \u00a0<\/p>\n
As of 1 January 2026, he said, 2,900 positions will be abolished, while more than 1,000 staff separations have already been finalized, requiring careful management to ensure affected personnel continue to receive salaries and entitlements during the transition.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ramanathan also welcomed what he described as a record level of potential advance payments by Member States toward the 2026 budget and appealed for continued prompt payment of assessed contributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The budget \u2013 approved by the 193-member General Assembly on Tuesday \u2013 authorizes \u00a0$3,450,426,300 for the coming year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-212402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}