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The USA left UNESCO: than it threatens

The decision of the United States to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) came into force. Washington should be organizing more than 600 million dollars.

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The United States decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), announced in October 2017, entered into force on Monday in accordance with the organization’s charter.

From this moment on, the United States ceases its full membership in UNESCO and becomes an observer state. In effect, this means that Washington will no longer pay membership fees and will not be able to be elected to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the relevant body responsible for implementing the provisions of the 1972 Cultural and Natural Heritage Convention.

However, the convention itself is an independent international treaty that the United States signed and ratified: Washington does not leave it and will continue to fulfill it. As for the membership fees, their United States has not paid since 2011, they refused to participate in the financing of UNESCO after being admitted to its ranks as a full member of Palestine. As a result, the international organization lost 22% of its funding.

Disagreements over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were the reason for the current withdrawal: as the State Department stated back in October 2017, the decision “reflects US concerns about the growing debt at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reforms in this organization, and the persistence of anti-Israel bias at UNESCO.” Washington, however, intends to maintain a permanent observer mission at UNESCO, as well as participate in the organization's implementation of a number of its functions, including the protection of world cultural heritage, protection of press freedom, promotion of scientific cooperation and the educational process.

Come out and go again

This is not the first time the United States has left UNESCO: in 1984, the administration of US President Ronald Reagan already left the organization. Then the reason given was “excessive politicization” of UNESCO and “unreasonable spending” of its budget. However, the last time was largely based on the same disagreements over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The United States returned to UNESCO only in 2003, during the presidency of George W. Bush.

What are the United States losing?

The main thing that the United States loses by leaving UNESCO, as already mentioned, is the opportunity to be elected to the World Heritage Committee, which distributes financial assistance and decides which cultural and natural sites will be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Although the United States will no longer pay membership fees and participate in the activities of the committee, they are not deprived of the opportunity to put forward new objects for consideration. For example, since the 2016 year, the United States has included in its bid for the construction of the famous American modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright, located in several states. They have not yet been included in the list, and Washington will continue to work on it.

What will happen to existing world heritage sites in the US?

On the territory of the United States are currently 23 object, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Among them, the Statue of Liberty, natural complexes: the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks and many others.

Despite the withdrawal of Washington from the organization, the objects themselves are not in danger. According to the rules provided for by the 1972 convention of the year, the states on whose territory the World Heritage sites are located are responsible for them themselves, including keeping and ensuring their safety at their own expense. So from this point of view for the United States nothing changes.

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