{"id":54978,"date":"2025-07-22T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-says-it-s-leaving-un-cultural-agency-unesco-again\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:56:48","slug":"u-s-says-it-s-leaving-un-cultural-agency-unesco-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-says-it-s-leaving-un-cultural-agency-unesco-again\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. says it&#8217;s leaving UN cultural agency UNESCO again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a statement by the U.S. State Department, the withdrawal was due to what Washington saw as the UN cultural agency&#8217;s policy to &#8220;advance divisive social and cultural causes&#8221; over the Israel-Palestine conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNESCO&#8217;s decision to admit the &#8216;State of Palestine&#8217; as a member state is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. exit will take effect at the end of December 2026. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91337\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp\" alt=\"The United States announced Tuesday its decision to pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization two years after rejoining.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States announced Tuesday its decision to pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization two years after rejoining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000091336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091336,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/8437668_1753194240003_a_fb.jpg.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}