Given Iraq's inability, because of the embargo maintained against it, to pay its contributions in hard currency, its arrears to the budget of the United Nations had come to exceed the amount provided for in Article 19 of the Charter.
对伊拉克继续实行的全面禁运使其无力用硬通货币缴纳会费，因此它在联合国预算中拖欠的会费已超过《宪章》第19条规定的数额。