UN UNbelievable!
09/09/2011 | | Diplomatic costs, UN Budget, UN Translation Services, US Dollar, US Dollar depreciation
The Friday File: The UN has decided to limit the reports it publishes to a maximum of 10,700 words. They are doing it to save $ and reduce burden on translation services. This will also save a lot of diplomat’s time, which must obviously be worthless. Otherwise, they would have done this long ago. Costs are rising because the UN budget is in U.S. dollars and the dollar has been weakening against other currencies.