France's Azoulay re-elected as UNESCO chief
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France's Azoulay re-elected as UNESCO chief
In this file photo taken on October 27, 2021 Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay poses during a photo session in Paris. Azoulay has been re-elected as the UNESCO's Director-General, AFP reported on November 9, 2021. JOEL SAGET / AFP.



PARIS.- The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Tuesday re-elected France's Audrey Azoulay as its director-general for a second mandate, with the former French culture minister hailing a new confidence and unity in the organisation.

UNESCO had been riven by divisions when Azoulay took office in 2017 with both Israel and the United States exiting the agency over accusations of anti-Israeli bias.

Unchallenged, Azoulay won her new mandate at UNESCO's general conference with 155 votes in favour, just nine against and one abstention.

"I see this result as a sign of regained unity within our organisation. Over the last four years, we have been able to restore confidence in UNESCO, and in some respects this has also been about restoring UNESCO's confidence in itself," she said.

"We regained serenity by reducing the political tensions that stood in our way and by looking for common positions on subjects that were divisive in the past," she added.

UNESCO, which in 2020-21 received total funding of $1.4 billion from compulsory member contributions and donations, has been at the forefront of high-profile projects such as rebuilding the old city of Mosul in Iraq and schools in the Lebanese capital Beirut damaged by the August 2020 blast.

Azoulay's greatest challenge for her second four-year term will be seeking to woo Israel and the US back into the organisation, which oversees the coveted World Heritage label for humanity's most cherished sites worldwide.

A source close to Azoulay, who asked not to be named, told AFP in the run-up to the conference that there were "positive signs" that the two countries could be considering a return.

For some, the return of the US would be a welcome balance to the growing importance and influence of China which now makes up over 15 percent of the total compulsory budget contributions.

© Agence France-Presse










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