U.S. loses voting rights at UNESCO over Palestine row: sources

[The Straight Story]

U.S. loses voting rights at UNESCO over Palestine row: sources

PARIS Fri Nov 8, 2013 7:32am EST

(Reuters) - UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States, two years after it stopped paying dues to the UN's cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians, a UNESCO source told Reuters.

The U.S. decision to cancel its funding in October 2011 was blamed on US laws that prohibit funding to any UN agency that implies recognition of Palestinian demands for their own state.

The U.S. missed a Friday deadline to provide an official justification of its non-payment and a plan to pay back its missed dues, the UNESCO source said, automatically triggering the suspension of voting rights.

As of the 1100 a.m. GMT deadline, "nothing was received from the United States," the source said. Two separate diplomatic sources also confirmed the deadline had been missed, triggering the suspension of voting rights.

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[Katashi_itto]

1. Hahah...that what the US gets for listening to it's "Allies" the US will slowly lose more influence