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The United States announced that they would leave again UNESCOThe UN, educational, scientific and cultural organization, just two years after their reintegration.
The press secretary of the State Department of Tami Bruce was asked about retirement that Washington believes that UNESCO is trying to “contribute to controversial social and cultural reasons.” He added that the decision to make the “state of Palestine” as a member state is “extremely problematic, contrary to US policy and contributed to the spread of anti-Israeli rhetoric in the organization.”
This is the third time when the United States leave UNESCO, which is based in Paris, and for the second time in the era of Trump. The Donald Trump government left UNESCO during the first period, and after this development of the United States were outside UNESCO for five years. Later, the Biden government submitted an application, and the United States returned to the agency.
The last departure of the United States will enter into force at the end of December 2026.
While the United States introduces a significant part of the UNESCO budget, the organization, writes Associated Press, should be able to do this without US financing. The share of financing in the United States has decreased in recent years and is currently only 8% of the UNESCO total budget, and other countries increase their contributions.
The United States was first recalled from UNESCO in 1984 under President Reagan, referring to inept management, corruption and accusations that the organization was promoting Soviet interests. They reintegrated in 2003 during the presidency of George Bush.
In 2017, the Trump government announced the second departure of the country due to similar fears about anti-Israeli prejudices that entered into force a year later. The United States and Israel have already stopped UNESCO financing after the Palestinian integration of the member state in 2011.