![]() The enabling legislation last December grants a waiver to that 33-year-old law. The suspension of contributions in 2011 took place after a large majority of other UNESCO countries accepted Palestine as a Member State, triggering a 1990 law passed on Capitol Hill, forbidding funding for any international body that admitted the country. The full return of the US as a UNESCO Member State was made possible by an agreement reached by Congress in December 2022, as part of the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill, authorizing the resumption of financial contributions to the organization. The United States is a founding member of UNESCO and had withdrawn once before, in 1984, then rejoined in 2003. At the time, US funding made up 22 per cent of the agency’s budget. The country stopped funding UNESCO in 2011 after the organization extended membership to Palestine. Azoulay, the US State Department “welcomed the way in which UNESCO had addressed in recent years emerging challenges, modernised its management, and reduced political tensions”.
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