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The agency, in a progress report on the UN’s development goals for education, said after a decline in the early 2000s, out-of-school rates have started to stagnate

Nauert said: “On October 12, the Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organisation.

Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, stated this in her statement on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day commemorated on May 3

Frank La Rue, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, said the figure represented an equivalent of one journalist being killed every four days

He added that this was because an election was due to be held in 2016 to determine the successor of Ban Ki-moon, whose term as the eighth UN Secretary-General would end on December 31, 2016