美国为什么欠了那么多债务 美国拒付世卫组织欠款

美国拒付世卫组织欠款  

US will not pay what it owes WHO
The US said on Wednesday that it will not pay some $80 million it currently owes to the Geneva-based World Health Organization and will instead redirect the money to help pay its United Nations bill in New York.
The US plans to leave the WHO on July 6
2021.
美国计划在2021年7月6日退出总部位于日内瓦的世卫组织。
Under a 1948 joint resolution of the US Congress
US president had to give one-year notice of US withdrawal from the WHO and is required to pay what Washington's owes for the anization's current fiscal year.
Nerissa Cook
State Department Bureau of International Organization Affairs deputy assistant secretary of state
said the US currently owes the WHO some $18 million for financial year 2019 and $62 million for financial year 2020.
"Those together are being reprogrammed to the UN to pay the regular UN assessment
" said Cook
referring to money that Washington is required to pay the United Nations in New York.