The United States Government announced on Tuesday its decision to return to the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), just two years after rejoining the body and in line with the position defended by US President Donald Trump, to abandon different international agreements.
“The United States today informed the general director (of the international body) Audrey Azoulay from the US decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Continue involved in UNESCO does not go in favor of the national interests of the United States “, The State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce has said in a statement provided to Europa Press.
Thus, he has argued that “UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains a disproportionate focus on sustainable development objectives, a global and ideological agenda for international development that clashes with our foreign policy of the United States first,” he explained.
Bruce has also pointed out that “UNESCO’s decision to admit to the ‘State of Palestine’ as a member state is highly problematiccontrary to American politics and that contributes to the proliferation of an antiisraeli rhetoric within the organization. “
Therefore, he stated that “the continuation of the United States participation in international organizations will focus on moving forward by US interests clearly and conviction”, while stressed that This decision will come into force on December 31, 2026.
Just a few minutes before, the Viceportavaz de la Casa White, Anna Kelly, had pointed out that President Trump had decided to withdraw the country from the agency, which he accused of “supporting ‘Woke’ causes and others that are culturally and socially divisively.”
Kelly stressed that the president “will always put first to the United States.” “Our belonging to all international organizations must align with our national interests,” he said in his account in the social network X, where he attached an article in the medium ‘The New York Post’, to which he gave the exclusive about the decision of the president of the American country.
The decision is in line with that adopted by Trump himself during his first term between 2017 and 2021, when he has already removed the United States from UNESCO-in addition to abandoning the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Council for Human Rights, among other treaties-although former president Joe Biden reimbursed Washington in the body.
In this way, it is the third time that the United States leaves UNESCO, after the aforementioned measure by Trump and the adopted in 1984 by the then president, Republican Ronald Reagan, a pause that lasted until 2003, when Washington returned to the bosom of the organization by George W. Bush.
UNESCO general director, the French Audrey Azoulay, deeply lamented Trump’s decision, but He assured that they were prepared to do so, included at the budget level. “Although unfortunate, this announcement was predictable and UNESCO has prepared for it,” said Azoulay.
