{"id":11127,"date":"2017-10-13T04:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2017-10-13T04:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:42:58","slug":"us-withdraws-from-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/10\/13\/us-withdraws-from-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"US withdraws from UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of &#8220;anti-Israel bias&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heather Nauert, US state department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an &#8220;observer mission&#8221; to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US was angered in 2011 when UNESCO members granted Palestine full membership of the body, despite opposition from its ally Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US opposes any move by UN bodies to recognise the Palestinians as a state, believing that this must await a negotiated Middle East peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is also reviewing many of its multilateral commitments, pursuing what he calls an &#8220;America First&#8221; foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of &ldquo;anti-Israel bias&rdquo;. &nbsp; Heather Nauert, US state department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an &ldquo;observer mission&rdquo; to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency. &nbsp; The US was angered in 2011 when UNESCO members granted Palestine full membership of the body, despite opposition from its ally Israel. &nbsp; The US opposes any move by UN bodies to recognise the Palestinians as a state, believing that this must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}