The agency seems innocuous: it preserves heritage sites, sponsors literacy projects and promotes education on topics from science to genocide. Yet America has left and rejoined it twice in recent decades. Why?
with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is rocky. The agency seems innocuous: it preserves heritage sites, sponsors literacy projects and promotes education on topics from science to genocide. Yet America has left and rejoined it twice in recent decades. On June 30thvoted to approve the country’s latest bid to re-enter.
In 2017 Donald Trump, anxious to stop accruing arrears and eager to punishhas toned down its politics in the intervening years. A day after Mr Trump withdrew from the agency, Audrey Azoulay, a Jewish French-government minister, was appointed its head, in part to counter allegations of bias. Ms Azoulay has worked hard to woo America back.
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