The United Nations is due to vote Friday on its annual peacekeeping budget, which is more than half a billion dollars less than the current one.
The deal negotiated this week includes a roughly seven percent reduction in America's contribution, after calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to cut funding to the world body.
Our U.N. correspondent Liling Tan reports from New York.
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