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_Published 2017-10-12. The Trump Administration says the U.S. is withdrawing from the United Nations' cultural body UNESCO, citing "anti-Israel bias" as one of its reasons._


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## Transcript

This morning on behalf of the US Department of States, I hand delivered a letter from Secretary of State Tillerson to Director General of Unesco, Irina Bokova. In that letter, we confirmed that the US had decided officially to depart UNESCO. This decision was certainly not taken lightly and follows months and months of internal deliberation. Two main factors impacted our decision. One is the accrual of arrears which since 2011 with the admission of Palestine as a member state have been mounting. The second issue is what we have seen is the unfortunate politicization of the mandate of UNESCO. Where antis Robias \ g has been a major factor and something the US has been struggling to address.

As it is now, we've seen a troubling trend of politicization on issues that we think are not in the best interest of the United States. And so, if that's the case, we will continue to To actively address our concerns not only at UNESCO but bilaterally and another multilaterally UN agencies.

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