Posted on 10/13/2017 7:36:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS - The United Nations cultural agency will elect a new chief on Friday, seeking someone who can revive UNESCOs fortunes after the United States and Israel pulled out.
Whoever gets the job will need to restore relevance to the agency whose mission to protect the worlds cultural and natural heritage has been hobbled by regional rivalries and a lack of money.
After five days of secret balloting at UNESCOs Paris HQ two former culture ministers, Qatars Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari and Frances Audrey Azoulay, face off in the final vote of the 58-member Executive Board, scheduled for Friday evening.
The United States is meant to provide a fifth of UNESCOs funding, but had already been withholding that since 2011 when the body admitted Palestine as a full member. It announced its departure on Thursday accusing UNESCO of anti-Israeli bias. Israel itself followed.
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Maybe the Saudi’s can replace our funding.
With the US out I bet tons of money ends up disappearing ,so they’ll have even less ,LOL
Or Morocco? Note: Audrey Azoulay, the former French culture minister and daughter of Moroccan royal advisor André Azoulay.
That means our National Parks and rivers are under AMERICAN control again!
https://www.internationalrivers.org/campaigns/world-heritage-rivers-under-threat
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