UNESCO: United States planning to rejoin UNESCO organization

[June 12, 2023]  PARIS (Reuters) - The United States is planning to rejoin the UNESCO organization - which the United States had earlier withdrawn from December 2018 - as from this July onwards, said UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency, on Monday.   

The UNESCO logo is seen during the opening of the 39th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at their headquarters in Paris, France, October 30, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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