A spokesman for the U.S. State Department Victoria Nuland told reporters that, the U.S. has no choice but to stop financing it because of U.S. legislation passed in the 1990s, says Washington will not make the transfer of 60 million dollars is planned, which was originally (to be transferred ) in November, Reuters reported.
"... The U.S. remains strongly committed to the multilateral linkages, strong in the UN system. However, Palestine as a country membership in UNESCO has sparked legislative restrictions that have long existed, which would encourage the U.S. to refrain from contributing to UNESCO, " Nuland said.
Nuland also said the decision Monday by UNESCO member states to recognize Palestine as a member, had been "regrettable, too early and ruin our common goal (achieve) a comprehensive peace, justice and eternal in the Middle East".
U.S. to give 22 percent of the funds of UNESCO. The agency decided Monday to give Palestinians full membership, a decision that will encourage their efforts at the United Nations to gain recognition as a state.
UNESCO is the UN agency in which the first Palestinian to join as full members since President Mahmoud Abbas asked for full membership in the UN on 23 September.
Among UNESCO's task is to establish a World Heritage places, improving education around the world, and held a tsunami early warning system in the Pacific.
Process Two Decades
The U.S. and its ally Israel against the Palestinian diplomatic movements in the UN system, describing it as an attempt to sidestep the peace process that has been aged two decades. Washington said only the resumption of peace talks that ended with an agreement with Israel that could produce a Palestinian state purposes.
Earlier Monday, members of parliament nggota U.S. Republican demanded that the funds were discontinued, and the White House and other officials across the U.S. political spectrum criticized the UNESCO's action.
Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said UNESCO's action was "not a substitute for conversation, but it's very damaging to the UNESCO".
Palestinian officials have said they will ask for full membership in the UN as much as possible. Is clearly worrying the U.S. State Department officials who fear the loss of U.S. influence, if more funds are triggered by the termination statute.
Act 1990 that prohibits U.S. funding to the UN organization that gives full membership in a group that does not have the properties of internationally recognized states.
Language (the Act) was intended as a first action to impede the normalization of relations and activities of Palestinians in the international community, said Lara Friedman, policy director at Americans for Peace Now, a group of pro-peace Jewish-American.
The law may also forbid Americans to fund other UN organizations which gave Palestinians full membership, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which among other things oversee Iran's nuclear program.
Esther Brimmer, assistant secretary of state for international organiosasi, has met with representatives of large U.S. corporations, Monday, to convey concerns over the possibility of Palestinian attempts to enter the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Geneva-based WIPO is the UN organization that was tasked to protect the copyright, which covers anything from a list of songs to patents for new drugs and high-tech innovation.
Other American Jewish groups, J. Street, asked Congress to amend the law in order to maintain U.S. funding to UNESCO and other organizations.
"If Congress does not act, we may soon find ourselves without a voice in bodies that are affiliated with the United Nations is very important for employment, safety and security of America," Dylan said of William J. Street.
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