Task 5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box, changing them, if necessary

	1- to admit 6- scientific 10 - recognition 2 -member 7- cultural 11- policies 3- agency 8 – funding 12 - membership 4- announced 9 – changing 5 – educational 13 - approval

UNESCO voted on Monday (1)… Palestine into the organization as its newest (2)… and the United States promptly responded by cutting off funding for the (3)…. Acting under a legal requirement to cut U.S. funds to any U.N. agency that recognizes a Palestinian state, the State Department on Monday (4)… that the United States has stopped funding the U.N. (5)…, (6)… and (7)… Organization because of the vote.

Yasser Abed Rabbo expressed disappointment with the U.S. intention to cut (8)… to the agency. “We hope that the United States will not take such a step,” he said. “The world is (9)…, so it is better to move toward (10)… of the rights of the Palestinian people, rather than adopting the same old (11)… which have proven to be fruitless.” The UNESCO (12)… bid, which required (13)… by two-thirds of the agency’s General Conference, passed by a vote of 107 to 14, with 52 abstentions.

The Washington Post, 31/X/2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/unesco-votes-to-admit-palestine-over-us-objections/2011/10/31/gIQAMleYZM_story.html

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