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With the Americans, we will be politically more balanced, with tenfold legitimacy and credibility”, rejoiced the director general of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP
DECRYPTION – A vote of the Member States should ratify, today or tomorrow, the return of the Americans to Unesco. Donald Trump had slammed the door in 2017, like Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, causing a serious decline in the organization’s regime. Bringing them back was the goal of “Operation Columbia.”
The Director General of Unesco having a full-time job like an egg, it is not always easy to meet her. In recent days, his entourage has still found moments for Audrey Azoulay to comment on “the” big news: today, or tomorrow, the 193 member countries of the general conference of the international organization for culture should ratify the return from the United States, as a full member.
The fate of the vote seems to be in no doubt, two thirds of the States having already indicated that they were in favor. Even Beijing, which has a complex relationship with Washington, has signaled that it will abstain. For Audrey Azoulay, an undeniable victory is looming. “With them, we will be politically more balanced, with tenfold legitimacy and credibility,” she rejoiced, on the eve of the ballot, from her large Parisian office in the 7th arrondissement.
If all goes as planned, the hallways of the austere 1950s building…
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2023-06-28 16:12:15
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