The restoration of the historic city's iconic Al-Nouri Mosque and Al-Hadba Minaret was just one of many programs run by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which is in the spotlight because the United States is leaving it once again.

The US is withdrawing, again, from UNESCO, a group that preserves cultural and natural heritage worldwide. Are any World Heritage sites in Ohio?

BEIJING, July 23. /TASS/. Chinese officials believe that the US exit from UNESCO is unacceptable, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Guo Jiakun said. "The United States is pulling out of UNESCO for the third time and also has significant unpaid membership fees - this is not the behavior of a responsible great power," he emphasized at a briefing.

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" UN culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden.

One of the United Nations' UNESCO program missions is the World Heritage program, which protects historic and cultural sites.

The Trump administration intends to withdraw the U.S. from the organization, just two years after it rejoined after a five-year absence.