{"id":118018,"date":"2017-10-12T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=118018"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:35:58","slug":"the-united-states-withdraws-from-unesco-us-department-of-state-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/the-united-states-withdraws-from-unesco-us-department-of-state-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Withdraws From Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO – US Department of State Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press Statement<\/span><\/h6>\n

Heather Nauert<\/span>
\nDepartment Spokesperson
\n<\/span>Washington, DC
\n<\/span>October 12, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 12, 2017, the Department of State notified Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO. This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO.<\/p>\n

The United States indicated to the Director General its desire to remain engaged with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO as a non-member observer state in order to contribute U.S. views, perspectives and expertise on some of the important issues undertaken by the organization, including the protection of world heritage, advocating for press freedoms, and promoting scientific collaboration and education.<\/p>\n

Pursuant to Article II(6) of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Constitution, U.S. withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2018. The United States will remain a full member of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO until that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC October 12, 2017 On October 12, 2017, the Department of State notified Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵESCO. This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2553],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2497],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2441],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-118018","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-states-of-america","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco","document-subject-education-and-culture","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/118018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/118018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=118018"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=118018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}