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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Lee

US aims to rejoin UN scientific and educational organization to push back on China

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Biden administration says the U.S. will rejoin the U.N.’s educational and scientific organization after a five-year absence that began while Donald Trump was president.

The State Department said it had delivered a letter seeking re-admission to the Paris-based body, known as UNESCO, late last week. The June 8 letter from Deputy Secretary of State for Management Richard Verma proposed “a plan for the U.S. to rejoin the organization," the department said.

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