UN chief pleads with countries to pay their share for international peacekeeping

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that the world body’s peacekeeping operation is “only as strong as member states’ commitment to it” as he pleaded with them Tuesday to pay their share.

The United Nations’ peacekeeping department currently leads 11 operations, in countries including Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Lebanon, Cyprus and Kosovo.

The budget for nine of those operations during the fiscal…