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

On the recordMay 10, 2001
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.''
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado
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Editor's note · Context

Opposing U.S. rejoining UNESCO during a committee discussion on related legislation.

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