Details of these and other developments in this week's edition of the World in Review. Our cash balances continue to be erratic. The timing and amount of cash inflows continues to be unpredictable. The Under Secretary-general for Administration and Management Joseph Connor on the current financial situation of the United Nations. He was at the time briefing United Nations correspondents after addressing the Assembly's Administrative and Budgetary Committee.
Uncollected assessments continue to hover at precarious levels.
Mr. Connor says there's been no real change in the last two years, adding that a bad financial situation has persisted and has become rigid. At any time during the past two years we have had about one year's assessments uncollected, more or less. One group of Member States may be at the point perhaps permanently of financing the assessments owed by a second group of member States. Our financial health is continuing to deteriorate. It was predicted earlier in these summations.