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Tue 08 Aug 2001UN owed more than four billion dollarsMember states owe the United Nations $4.295 billion in unpaid contributions, four-fifths of it to the peacekeeping account, UN spokesman Mr Fred Eckhard said today.As of July 15th, members owed more than $726 million for the regular budget for this and previous years, and over $3.46 billion for peacekeeping, he said. They owed just over $100 million dollars for the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.