Tom Tancredo: “I believe that UNESCO can best be described as an organization in search of a mission. Unfortunately when it does…”

“I believe that UNESCO can best be described as an organization in search of a mission. Unfortunately when it does stumble upon the mission, it is almost always one that is quite perverse. As I mentioned just a minute ago, it would cost us some $67 million per year to get back in; and I question whether this is a wise use of resources. David Malone, the president of the International Peace Academy in New York and a former Canadian Foreign Ministry official, is not optimistic about the prospects for reform by the new Director General of UNESCO, Mr. Koichiro Matsura of Japan, ``the problem of UNESCO is that successive heads have turned it into a personal patronage machine, neglecting programs and bloating the staffing.''”