{"id":169897,"date":"2025-07-22T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=169897"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:41:02","slug":"us-planning-to-withdraw-from-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/169897\/","title":{"rendered":"US planning to withdraw from UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The U.S. State Department has informed the leadership of UNESCO of its decision to withdraw from the international organization, the press service of the foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/07\/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, the United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States&rsquo; decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,&rdquo; the State Department writes.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, the international organization is driven by a &ldquo;globalist, ideological agenda&rdquo; that contradicts the Trump administration&rsquo;s &ldquo;America First&rdquo; policy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;UNESCO&rsquo;s decision to admit the &lsquo;State of Palestine&rsquo; as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization,&rdquo; reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The document states that the United States will cease to be a full member of UNESCO on Dec. 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department has informed the leadership of UNESCO of its decision to withdraw from the international organization, the press service of the foreign ministry reports. &ldquo;Today, the United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States&rsquo; decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":169692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,47,53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-culture","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}