The president of USA, Donald Trumphe withdrew on Tuesday to his country from the Agency for Culture and Education of the United Nations, UNESCO. This fact repeats the measure that he already ordered in his first mandate and was reversed under that of Joe Biden.
The withdrawal of the agency based in Paris, founded after the Second World War To promote peace through international cooperation in education, science and culture, it will be effective on December 31, 2026.
“President Trump decided to withdraw Unesco’s United White House spokesman, Anna Kelly.
Trump retired the US for the US for the second time, the UN Cultural Agency
He State Department He affirmed that the permanence in UNESCO is not of national interest, while accused of having “A global and ideological agenda For international development, in disagreement with our foreign policy of ‘United States first’ ”.
The agency’s head, Audrey AzoulayHe said that Trump’s decision deeply laments, but that he was “expected and UNESCO prepared for it.” As indicated, it diversified its sources of financing, receiving only around 8% of its budget of Washington.
UNESCO was one of the international organizations that Trump retired in his first term, together with the World Health Organization (WHO)Paris’s agreement on climate change and UN Human Rights Council. During his second mandate, he greatly re -established those decisions.
UNESCO officials said the US retirement will have a limited impact on Washington programs. The US State Department said that one of the reasons for retirement was the agency’s decision to admit Palestine as a member state.
The reason is that they consider this “contrary to American politics and contributes to the proliferation of antiisraeli rhetoric within the organization.”
Tariffs: Donald Trump raised the demands with the European Union less than two weeks after the deadline to negotiate
Commercial negotiations between the United States and the European Union (EU) seem to have taken an unexpected turn after US officials communicated to Brussels that the American president, Donald Trumpwill require new concessions to the European bloc to reach an agreement.
Sources close to the conversations indicated to The Wall Street Journal that The new proposal includes a 15% base tariff at least for most European products, A figure greater than 10% that the EU negotiators had contemplated as a more likely scenario and on which the last weeks were negotiated.
Source: Ambito
