Cyberzenhub.com – The United States has formally informed Congress that it intends to remit $850 million toward the roughly $5 billion in overdue assessments it carries with the United Nations — the single largest disbursement the current administration has made to the New York–based world body since taking office. The payment, broken into two distinct tranches, would partially address arrears on the organization’s core operating budget as well as its peacekeeping missions in two of Africa’s most volatile regions.

State Department notifications delivered to lawmakers on August 4 outline the split: $725 million earmarked for the regular UN budget and $125 million directed at peacekeeping operations deployed in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Together, those figures represent a modest dent in a debt that the UN itself pegs at more than $2 billion for routine budget obligations and approximately $3 billion for peacekeeping contributions.…