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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) explained that the United States has informed it of its decision to rejoin with a specific financing plan, which will be submitted to the Member States in an extraordinary session. soon. Trump withdrew from the organization he accused in particular of repeatedly taking anti-Israel positions.
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The United States, under the Trump administration, announced in October 2017 its departure from the organization for its “persistent anti-Israel bias.” This withdrawal, accompanied by that of Israel, became effective in December 2018.
Now the United States of Biden has requested its reentry to this organization for the promotion of Culture, Education and Science. A “strong vote of confidence”, according to the director general of Unesco, the French Audrey Azoulay.
The 193 member countries of this UN organization must decide by majority, through a vote in July, if they accept the return of Washington.
China has already announced that it will not oppose the return. This was stated by the Chinese ambassador to UNESCO, Yang Jin, who assured that they are ready “to work with all member states, including the United States.”
This change comes amid growing fears about the role that China, the United States’ great rival, may play in the world trade order.
Indeed, Washington wants to return to the ring so as not to let China have a leading role in decisions, for example on issues of artificial intelligence. And it is that, in 2021, Unesco drafted recommendations on ethics and AI.
“I think we should return to Unesco, not to give it a gift, but because the things that happen at Unesco are important,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declared in March in the Senate.
Before he left, the United States represented 22% of the total budget. And it has a debt of 619 million dollars, contracted between 2011 and 2018. To settle the arrears, the Biden administration asked the US Congress to disburse 150 million dollars for the fiscal year of 2024, a contribution that will continue in the following years. (with AFP)
