Trump administration pulls US out of UNESCO
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration announces that the U.S. is withdrawing from UNESCO, effective December 1984, saying it had become "politicized," financially mismanaged, unduly focused on weapons disarmament during the Cold War and hostile to free markets and a free press.
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The United States will leave the United Nations' culture and education agency UNESCO, the US state department has confirmed.