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The U.S. says it wants to rejoin UNESCO after exiting during the Trump administration
NPR ^ | June 12, 2023 | By Joe Hernandez

Posted on 06/15/2023 9:09:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising

The U.S. may soon rejoin UNESCO several years after exiting the body, in part because of what the Trump administration called a bias against Israel.

UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — said in a press release Monday that the State Department had sent the Paris-based organization a letter announcing its decision to rejoin the educational and cultural body, which is widely known for its list of World Heritage Sites.

"This is a strong act of confidence, in UNESCO and in multilateralism," UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. "Not only in the centrality of the Organization's mandate — culture, education, science, information — but also in the way this mandate is being implemented today."

Congress agreed last year that the U.S. could make financial contributions to UNESCO, and the group said in December that the country could return as a member, though the proposed plan must be approved by member states.

The State Department did not immediately reply to NPR's request for comment.

In late 2017, the State Department announced it would leave UNESCO the following year over a perceived anti-Israel bias, financial woes and other concerns. Nikki Haley, who was the U.S. ambassador to the UN at the time, praised UNESCO's purpose but claimed the group's "extreme politicization has become a chronic embarrassment."

The U.S. cut funding off under former President Obama in 2011 following a vote by UNESCO member states to admit Palestine.

The State Department said the move triggered "longstanding legislative restrictions." The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, passed in 1990, forces the U.S. to cut off support to any UN group that gives the Palestinian Liberation Organization the same standing as other member states.

This isn't the first time the U.S. has pulled out of UNESCO only to rejoin later.

UNESCO declares borsch cooking an endangered Ukrainian heritage EUROPE UNESCO declares borsch cooking an endangered Ukrainian heritage The country exited UNESCO in 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, citing "poor management and values opposed to our own," including advocating for limits on freedom of the press, according to the State Department. The U.S. wouldn't rejoin the body for nearly two decades.

In 2002 President George W. Bush announced a return to UNESCO, praising reforms to the management structure and the group's renewed dedication to the values of press freedom and universal education.


TOPICS: Israel
KEYWORDS: unesco
It will only cost us $500 million to rejoin, which by Ukraine standards is 'coffee' money. Rest assured that the first thing that the US will do will be to recognize Palestine as the rightful 'nation' of the 1948 Mandate. Unesco had declared all Israeli holy sites as Palestinian (such as Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Rachel's Tomb, The entire Temple Mount and East Jerusalem, etc.)

Biden wants to erase 'them damn Jews' from Palestine (//sarc//)

1 posted on 06/15/2023 9:09:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

Stolen elections have consequences, and this is just one of them.


2 posted on 06/15/2023 9:21:46 AM PDT by devere
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It’s not very clear… did we stop funding in 2011 and exit in 2017 under Trump and Nikki Haley?


3 posted on 06/15/2023 9:27:23 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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The U.S. DOES NOT want to re-join UNESCO.

The enemy regime in "power" today in America wants to.

REAL Americans are pretty well fed up with the public school system and it was the correct Trump call to pull out.

4 posted on 06/15/2023 9:45:25 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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The Bidenskyyyy Bastards are out looking for crap third world organizations to throw American Taxpayer dollars at.


5 posted on 06/15/2023 9:48:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The southern invasion has been a big success. Foreigner invaders are running the government now.)
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The Biden regime decided to hand UNESCO $600 million of our money to a America-hating, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, Islamofascist organization, precisely because it is those four things.

6 posted on 06/15/2023 10:14:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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7 posted on 06/15/2023 10:14:53 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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--- "The U.S. says it wants to rejoin UNESCO after exiting during the Trump administration"

Observe the language. There are those of us -- part of the U.S. -- who DO NOT WANT this.

Another reason to push back against the corruption of Democrats, RINOs and the UN, of which UNESCO is a part.

8 posted on 06/15/2023 10:28:47 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis


9 posted on 06/15/2023 10:31:46 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

[[The Bidenskyyyy Bastards are out looking for crap third world organizations to throw American Taxpayer dollars at.]]

Instead of throwing craploads of $$ to disabled and wounded veterans who served the nation- They get diddly while terrorist nations get billions- so many much better places to spend $$ than on natiosn that hate us


10 posted on 06/15/2023 10:43:24 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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11 posted on 06/16/2023 6:48:29 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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