[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 135 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE UNITED NATIONS: ONE BIG MESS

  (Mr. KIM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, right now the U.N. General Assembly is meeting 
in New York City and it is demanding we give more and more money to the 
United Nations.
  Now even Boutros Boutros-Ghali has proposed the idea of a new 
international tax, which means the American people pay income tax plus 
U.N. tax. How do my colleagues like that?
  Last year alone, the United Nations spent more than $4.6 billion. 
Guess how much our share was? Almost one-third. One-third we pay to the 
United Nations to support this.
  Look at the United Nations chart, how complicated, how messy it is. 
This is what the United Nations looks like. Look at this. This is 
nothing. I took as an example one of the small agencies down in the 
Food Agriculture Organization. Look at how messy that is. That is what 
that is, one small agency, one small operation. Look at how complicated 
it is. If we look at some other agencies such as the International 
Development Program, I need a sixth of this.
  That is what we are asking the United Nations to cut, by 22 percent, 
and my colleagues are calling us draconian, mean-spirited.

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