A Chinese envoy emphasized the great importance of compiling a realistic and reasonable peacekeeping budget, as the largest expenditure of the United Nations, at a UN meeting on Monday.
During the second part of the resumed 79th session of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee), Jiang Hua, counselor of the Permanent Mission of China to the UN, stressed the need to strengthen budget performance management and improve the efficiency of fund utilization.
"UN peacekeeping operations serve as a vital tool for maintaining international peace and security, while also facing unprecedented new circumstances and challenges. As the largest expenditure of the UN, a realistic and reasonable compilation of the peacekeeping budget is of utmost importance. Against the backdrop of downsizing and withdrawal of peacekeeping operations, the budget for peacekeeping expenditure accounts has unprecedentedly increased by 43 million U.S. dollars, marking an increase of 11.2 percent -- the highest among all categories.," Jiang said.
China supports the UN Board of Auditors in fully exercising its external audit and oversight functions and hopes the Secretariat will strengthen supervision and accountability to decisively prevent financial waste caused by poor management, according to the Chinese envoy.
Chinese envoy stresses importance of realistic, reasonable UN peacekeeping budget compilation
Protests against federal immigration enforcement are spreading across the United States, with the latest demonstration unfolding directly in front of the White House.
Early Saturday, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered there, demanding changes to the Trump administration's immigration policies and accountability for recent shootings involving federal agents.
Immigrant rights and civil rights groups said this weekend's rallies mark a coordinated national response. Demonstrations are planned or already underway in major cities including Philadelphia, as well as across states such as North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Washington, D.C., where organizers are calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be removed from local communities.
The nationwide protests follow a deadly week in which three people were shot by federal agents in two days.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good, was killed during an enforcement operation by the ICE. A day later in Portland, Oregon, a man and a woman were wounded during a separate federal operation.
In the aftermath, Minnesota state officials accused the Trump administration of blocking their investigation by denying access to key evidence and prematurely drawing conclusions before a full review could be completed.
On Friday, Donald Trump defended the Department of Homeland Security's actions, sharply criticizing Minnesota leaders and calling them corrupt.
Local leaders have pushed back. During a Saturday news conference, the mayor of Minneapolis described ICE agents' actions as reckless.
Officials in both Minneapolis and Portland continue urging demonstrators to remain peaceful as protests intensify nationwide.
According to a 50501 Movement statement issued Friday, at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025.
Nationwide protests erupt in US after ICE shootings
