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Right time to rejoin UNESCO
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, October 2, 2003 | By John C. Whitehead

Posted on 10/01/2003 11:59:58 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:09:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Twenty years ago this autumn, the United States announced its intention to withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nations agency charged with strengthening cooperation among countries in the areas of learning, communications and scientific collaboration.

I served as deputy secretary of state at the time our government made this decision, and our reasons were compelling: UNESCO's programs had become politicized and its management practices were corrupt.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: unesco
Thursday, October 2, 2003

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I thought it was a conservative paper?
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He's kidding, right?
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