Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO
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UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States
"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from UNESCO.
One of the United Nations' UNESCO program missions is the World Heritage program, which protects historic and cultural sites.
BEIJING, July 23. /TASS/. Chinese officials believe that the US exit from UNESCO is unacceptable, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Guo Jiakun said. "The United States is pulling out of UNESCO for the third time and also has significant unpaid membership fees - this is not the behavior of a responsible great power," he emphasized at a briefing.
The US is withdrawing, again, from UNESCO, a group that preserves cultural and natural heritage worldwide. Are any World Heritage sites in Ohio?
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President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" UN culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden.
The Trump administration intends to withdraw the U.S. from the organization, just two years after it rejoined after a five-year absence.