{"id":46000,"date":"2019-10-12T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=46000"},"modified":"2019-10-12T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T04:19:20","slug":"un-takes-strict-measures-to-cut-costs-to-cope-with-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=46000","title":{"rendered":"UN takes strict measures to cut costs to cope with financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/106171946-1570612313708gettyimages-1170693364.jpeg?v=1570612394&amp;w=678&amp;h=381\" alt=\"GP: World Leaders Address United Nations General Assembly 191009 EU\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The United Nations is taking strict and concrete measures to cut costs, hoping to tide over the worst financial crisis facing the organization in a decade, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Effective immediately, official travel will be limited to the most essential activities,&#8221; Guterres said in a letter dated Oct 10, which was addressed to all heads of UN departments, offices and regional commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In addition, it will be necessary to reduce all other non-post expenses to the extent possible,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN chief also ordered to postpone purchases of goods and services, implement energy-saving and other measures to reduce utility bills and temporarily curtail expenses on managing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Events occurring before or after official meeting hours and during weekends will no longer be booked at all headquarters duty stations, effective Oct. 14,&#8221; said the secretary-general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Agreements for events that have already been booked will be reviewed to determine whether such events can be held,&#8221; said the UN chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Managers are directed to explore avenues to further limit expenses during the last quarter of 2019 and to curtail expenditures to the extent possible in their areas of work,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN chief stressed that existing measures already in place, such as limits to hiring against vacant regular budget funded positions during the last quarter, remain in place. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The United Nations is taking strict and concrete measures to cut costs, hoping to tide over the worst financial crisis facing the organization in a decade, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. &#8220;Effective immediately, official travel will be limited to the most essential activities,&#8221; Guterres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}