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US re-entry into UNESCO
Context
US first lady Jill Biden attended a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO in Paris, marking Washington's official re-entry into the UN agency after a controversial five-year hiatus.
Background
- The US had announced its intention to rejoin UNESCO in June, and the organisation’s 193-member states earlier this month voted to approve the US reentry.
- The US announced it exit from UNESCO in 2017 cited an alleged anti-Israel bias within the organisation.
- The decision followed a 2011 move by UNESCO to include Palestine as a member state, which led the US and Israel to cease financing the agency.
- The US withdrawal became official a year later in 2018.
- Now, the United States becomes the 194th Member State of UNESCO.
About UNESCO
- UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
- It is a part of the United Nations.
- Created in 1946, UNESCO originally rebuilt schools, libraries, and museums destroyed in Europe during World War II.
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Currently, India has 40 Sites in the UNESCO World Heritage List and 52 sites in the UNESCO Tentative List of which 6 were added in the year 2022. |
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