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Report: US informs UNESCO it will rejoin agency six years after Trump withdrawal
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The logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris, on October 12, 2017. (AFP/Jacques Demarthon/File)
The US has informed UNESCO that it plans to rejoin the UN agency six years after the Trump administration quit the body over its purported anti-Israel bias, according to the Axios news site.
Israel and the United States suspended their funding to UNESCO in 2011 after the Palestinians were admitted as members. Both countries lost their voting rights as a result. In 2017, the Trump administration announced that it planned to leave UNESCO entirely, and Israel later followed suit.
Israel indicated last year that it was not opposed to the US rejoining the international body.
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