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US return may boost 'S' in UNESCO

Nature volume 419, page 235 (2002)Cite this article

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The United States has promised to rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), nearly two decades after it severed ties with the organization.

President George W. Bush made the announcement during a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on 12 September, saying that the organization had been sufficiently reformed. The United States withdrew its funding and staff in 1984 on the grounds that UNESCO had become too bureaucratic and politicized.

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Knight, J. US return may boost 'S' in UNESCO. Nature 419, 235 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419235b

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