The UN human rights chief says threatened US funding cuts wouldn't be "fatal" for his office, but says he hopes other countries won't follow suit.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein insisted "the office will continue to survive" even if the US carries out the promise made by US National Security Adviser John Bolton in an interview with The Associated Press last week.
Zeid told reporters today that "clearly what one doesn't want to see is a whole series of withdrawals and withdrawal of funding."
Bolton's pledge that the US will cut funding to the rights office, and the UN's top human rights body was the latest Trump administration salvo against UN institutions.
The US is the UN's largest single donor, providing about 22 per cent of its budget.
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