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South Sudan, Venezuela and Lebanon are among six other countries that have lost their voting rights in the UN General Assembly due to arrears, the UN chief said in a letter on Thursday.

The Associated Press reports that the member states are owing to the 193-member assembly’s operating budget.

Also among those losing voting rights are Dominica, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reportedly said.

According to the secretary-general’s letter, the minimum payments needed to restore voting rights are $76,244,991 for Venezuela, $1,835,303 for Lebanon, $619,103 for Equatorial Guinea, $196,130 for South Sudan, $61,686 for Gabon, and $20,580 for Dominica.

The AP understands that Gabon is serving a two-year term on the Security Council though its voting rights are not affected.

The U.N. Charter states that members whose arrears equal or exceed the amount of their contributions for the preceding two full years lose their voting rights.

But it also gives the General Assembly the authority to decide “that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the member,” and in that case a country can continue to vote.

The General Assembly decided that three African countries on the list of nations in arrears – Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia — would be able to keep their voting rights.

South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is yet to comment on the matter.