U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Members’ Unpaid Dues

The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.The General Assembly in September. The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, sent a letter to the ambassadors of all 196 member states on Thursday saying, “I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face.”