Maria Zakharova commented on the words of the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, that America was busy counting allies in the union. The "spokesman" of the Russian ministry stressed that her overseas opponent had almost recognized the venality of universal support: they say, the US "is buying international solidarity". Official representative of the foreign policy department refreshed the memory of the UN speaker about unpaid contributions. She also recalled the amount of the state debt of the United States. In her statement, Haley said that they are replenishing the organization's budget for more than three together the largest donor. "The amount of unpaid US contributions in 2018 (including for 2017), including contributions to the regular budget of the United Nations, contributions to the budgets of peacekeeping operations and to international tribunals, is 2 billion 278 million 520 thousand. $ 306 and 88 cents, "Zakharova retorted in her Facebook post. In addition, in his text, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned the overseas debt owed to UNESCO, from which they withdrew in 2017. The amount is rather large - more than $ 540 million.

"You, Nikki, apparently do not know, but the public debt of the United States is $ 21 trillion, namely 106% of US GDP. Based on your logic, it's not that you vote with you, and no one should talk, "the Russian ministry's speaker emphasized.. Earlier, Hayley expressed dissatisfaction about the injections into the UN budget. The State Department determined that out of 93 draft resolutions voted for by the UN General Assembly this year, in 31% of cases the majority of the Member States voted in the same way as the United States. This indicator is 10% lower than last year's.