The United States to withdraw from the United Nations Cultural Agency UNESCO – again – my country

The United States announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw again from United Nations An educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington considers its anti -Israel bias, just two years after joining.

“President Trump decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO-who supports waking up, and the arbitrary cultural and social reasons that are completely out of the move with the participation policies that the Americans voted in November,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the New York Post. UNESCO and the White House did not immediately confirm the US step.

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This will be the third time that the United States has left UNESCO, which is based in Paris, and the second time during the Trump administration. President Donald Trump had already withdrew during his first term and the United States returned after a five -year absence after the Biden administration has advanced to join the organization.

The decision will be in effect at the end of December 2026.

The decision will not be surprising to UNESCO officials, who signed such a step after the specified review that the Trump administration requested earlier this year. They also expected that Trump will withdraw again since the United States returned in 2023 by a political competitor, former President Joe Biden.

The Trump administration announced in 2017 that the United States will withdraw from UNESCO, noting the anti -Israel bias. This decision began in effect after a year. The United States and Israel have stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011.

The United States had previously withdrew from UNESCO under Reagan administration in 1984 because it looked at the agency as mismanagement, corrupt and its use to develop the interests of the Soviet Union. He joined 2003 during the presidency of George W. Bush.