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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023
UNESCO chief set for new term, eyes US return - official

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Reuters
17 March, 2021, 07:55 pm
Last modified: 17 March, 2021, 07:59 pm

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UNESCO chief set for new term, eyes US return - official

Outgoing Director General Audrey Azoulay was appointed in 2017 after a bitter campaign. Her mandate was to revive the organisation’s fortunes after the United States, which provided a fifth of its funding, pulled out

Reuters
17 March, 2021, 07:55 pm
Last modified: 17 March, 2021, 07:59 pm
FILE PHOTO: , FrancAudrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO attends a news conference on the launching of a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilisation to the natural world by the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) at the UNESCO headquarters in Parise, May 6, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Phot
FILE PHOTO: , FrancAudrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO attends a news conference on the launching of a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilisation to the natural world by the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) at the UNESCO headquarters in Parise, May 6, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Phot

The head of UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, is expected to win a second term later this year after nobody else submitted their candidacy for the position by the deadline on March 16, a UNESCO official said on Wednesday.

Outgoing Director General Audrey Azoulay was appointed in 2017 after a bitter campaign. Her mandate was to revive the organisation's fortunes after the United States, which provided a fifth of its funding, pulled out.

The election is due in November, but without an opponent and a majority of the 58 Executive Board member states, including biggest financial contributor China, backing her, she should be elected for another four years.

The agency, founded in the ashes of World War Two to protect the common cultural inheritance of humanity, is best known for designating and protecting archaeological and heritage sites, from the Galapagos Islands to the tombs of Timbuktu.

Most of its activities are uncontroversial, but issues such as resolutions about how religious sites should be run in Jerusalem have been highly charged and the United States quit over accusations of anti-Israeli bias by the body.

The official told Reuters that the signals from the new US administration were positive and that the objective was to make progress on the issue over the coming months.

UNESCO has had to fill a gaping financial hole. The United States left with $542 million in arrears. A US return, done through a letter informing the body, would also mean that Washington would repay its arrears at some stage.

Things may still prove complicated given a US law that forbids Washington from funding UN bodies that have admitted Palestine as a full member, although a waiver can be sought.

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