Rich wrote: > Rich, who would be interested in more detailed and accurate figures > than he could find in ten minutes of googling.
Well, here is the page for the UN operations from 1995 to 2006: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/contributors/ And I reckon the UN does do more than 1% of the peacekeeping missions. The US contribution there [and I found roughly the same figures there that you mentioned] is slightly more than 0.5% in terms of troops*. The financial contribution is more [30% in the years before 2000, and 27% ever since]. However, the source says that the payments are 'massively in arrears'. Am not sure how much has actually been paid. But even if we assume that most of the payments have been made, it is still way less than 99.9%. Ritu * - The biggest contributors here are the countries from the developing world. The top twenty contributors are from Africa and Asia, and the first three places are taken by the three countries on the subcontinent [Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, in that order]. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
