The UNESCO has been formally notified of Israel’s withdrawal from the organization two months after it announced it would follow the US by walking out over resolutions on Palestine.
In a statement UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said she had been officially notified on Friday that Israel would leave on December 31 2018.
“I regret this deeply as it is my conviction that it is inside UNESCO and not outside it that states can best seek to overcome differences in the organization’s fields of competence” she said.
Recently Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would leave the organization two months after the US formally announced its own withdrawal due to pro-Palestine resolutions passed by UNESCO members.
