“The crisis is deepening” and “will get worse in the near future,” he writes to the ambassadors of member states.
According to Guterres, the financial crisis is based on nonpayment and a budget rule that requires the UN to repay unspent funds.
The UN's largest contributor, the United States, is not mentioned by name. But Washington has broken with several UN bodies and has not paid its mandatory contributions to the UN's regular and peacekeeping operations.
Guterres offers two ways forward: Either everyone pays what they owe, or the UN's financial rules must be rewritten.
