US secretively notifies on return to UNESCO after Trump exit
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US secretively notifies UNESCO on the return to the UN Education charter six years after Donald Trump exit
US secretively notifies UNESCO on the return to the UN Education charter six years after Donald Trump exit.
The U.S. privately notified the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that it has decided to rejoin the agency nearly six years after the Trump administration announced it was withdrawing U.S. membership, a State Department spokesperson told Axios, the latter reported.
Richard Verma, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, delivered a letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on June 8, proposing a plan for the U.S. to rejoin the organization, a State Department spokesperson said.
Last December, Congress approved a bill that allocated more than $500 million needed to pay the U.S. debt to UNESCO and allows it to return as a full member.
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After Palestine became a full member of UNESCO in 2011, the Obama Administration stopped providing funding to the organization because it was barred to do so by U.S. law.
In October 2017, the Trump administration announced it was leaving UNESCO over what it described as anti-Israel bias. Israel announced that it would leave the organization not long after.
In February 2022, the Israeli government notified the State Department that it wouldn’t oppose a U.S. return to UNESCO. The Israeli position paved the way for some Democrats and Republicans in Congress to support the move.
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