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FY 2000 Funding for the Contributions to International Peacekeeping Account (CIPA) Fact sheet released by the Bureau of International Organization Affairs U.S. Department of State, April 26, 2000

• Important U.S. interests are advanced by UN peacekeeping missions in Kosovo, East Timor, Africa and elsewhere. These missions prevent further slaughter, maintain regional stability, and deter creation of zones of lawlessness. These missions offer a low cost alternative to either war or deeper U.S. engagement.

• UN peacekeeping costs have increased over the past year in response to these opportunities to advance U.S. interests. To cover these increased costs, without incurring further arrears to the United Nations, the Administration has requested a Fiscal Year 2000 supplemental appropriation for CIPA of $107 million, as part of the omnibus Kosovo request package submitted with the President's FY 2001 budget at the beginning of February.

• The supplemental request will help pay the U.S. share of UN peacekeeping costs this year not covered by the original $500 million appropriation, particularly assessments for Kosovo and East Timor. Even this amount may not be sufficient.

• The Administration will work with Congress as the year progresses to ensure that adequate resources are available to pay our obligations to the UN so that U.S. interests will be advanced without fail.

• Without the means to finance our assessed contributions to peacekeeping activities, the UN will be unable to fulfill the mandates of missions in Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, East Timor, and elsewhere.

• American interests are best served when conflicts such as these can be brought to an end through negotiation and peacekeeping, rather than through military intervention. UN peacekeeping allows us to share the risks and the costs, with minimum direct U.S. participation.

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