CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The United States and Israel left the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last December. The two countries opposed several anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN-organization in previous years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The US and Israel had quit the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) with the close of 2018.

Detailed explanation-3: -The United States joined UNESCO at its founding but later withdrew in 1984 because of a growing disparity between U.S. foreign policy and UNESCO goals. After an almost twenty-year absence from the organization, the United States rejoined the organization in October 2003.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States and Israel were members, but left on 31 December 2018 asserting that the organization had an anti-Israel bias.