US pullout not a surprise: New UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay
The new Director-General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay on Monday said that the US' decision to pullout from the agency was not a "complete surprise". "There have been long periods at UNESCO...more than 15 years...without the US, which ultimately came back," she added. The US had cited UNESCO's "anti-Israel bias" as the reason for its withdrawal.