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Sweden plans to cut contribution to UN

06 March 2013 01:06 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Swedish government planned to reduce its contribution to the United Nations (UN) by up to 10 percent, local media reported on Tuesday, APA reports quoting XInhua.

As part of its aid budget re-distribution plan, the reduced part would instead be used to increase refugee-receiving aid inside Sweden, reported Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter (DN).

"When refugees come to Sweden for protection the costs are deducted from our aid budget. I think it is good that they now share one account," Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, was quoted as saying by DN.

"When Sweden receive more refugees from the developing regions consequently we also increase our input to the aid,"said Minister for Finance Anders Borg.

But details such as how much exactly would be used on refugee-receiving aid remained unknown as discussions were going on inside the government.

The amount of Sweden's total aid reached 11 billion Swedish kronor (about 1.7 billion U.S. dollars) every year, of which a big part went to the UN.