China, a permanent Security Council member, pays around 1%.
It has a Permanent Mineral Trust Fund worth $5.8 billion and a $1.4 billion "rainy day" fund as well.
He must simply sign a treaty, finalized in Rome in 1998, to create a permanent International Criminal Court.
The German government is campaigning hard for a permanent Security Council seat.
Unicef had only recently become a permanent United Nations agency responsible for raising its own financing.
Henry Kissinger has said that Summers should be given a permanent White House job, a sort of fixer of flabby policy ideas".
"No one would deny that we need a permanent Office of Emergency Management," said Melinda R. Katz, chairwoman of the Council's Land Use Committee.
By a vote of 120 countries to 7, the conference agreed on a treaty setting up a permanent International Criminal Court.
As a permanent Security Council member, China can veto a second term as secretary general for Mr. Ban.
Dr Martin Salia, a permanent US resident, arrived in Omaha on Saturday afternoon, having left Freetown on Friday by air ambulance.
Since 1965 a permanent Law Commission has been charged with keeping the law under constant review and making proposals for change.
