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NEW YORK nike m2K tekno white cheap , Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has triggered worldwide calls for supporting multilateralism amid world challenges.


After the United States informed UNESCO on Thursday about its withdrawal on Dec. 31, 2018, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said it would be a loss to the United Nations and "a loss to multilateralism."


She said that UNESCO needs the leadership of all states "at the time when the fight against violent extremism calls for renewed investment in education nike m2K tekno black cheap , in dialogue among cultures to prevent hatred."


According to the U.S. State Department, one of the reasons for its withdrawal is the "continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO."


The United States stopped funding UNESCO after the organization voted to include Palestine as a member in 2011, but has maintained a UNESCO office at the organization's headquarters in Paris to weigh in on policy.


"It is unfortunate when international organizations that serve useful humanitarian purposes become politicized," said an American expert on international relations, referring to the prolonged Israel-Palestine conflict.


Avery Goldstein nike m2K tekno pink cheap , David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, said the decision of withdrawal continues a trend in U.S. policy towards UNESCO put in place under former U.S. President Barack Obama.


"It is more a matter of continuity than change," he told Xinhua in an email interview.


Unfortunately, suspicion of the effectiveness of multilateral organizations prevails in Washington, Sourabh Gupta nike odyssey react women cheap , resident senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, told Xinhua.


Gupta said that membership in UNESCO, "given its soft educational and cultural mandate," is considered to be a waste of money.


Statistics show that the United States is in arrears of over 500 million U.S. dollars to UNESCO as a consequence of its funding cuts to the organization.


However, analysts have said pulling out of UNESCO would not benefit the United States but have adverse impacts upon the country as well as the world.


As for the broader impact nike odyssey react mens cheap , Gupta said, the already-diminishing respect for the United States in the community of nations will diminish even further.


"As it slowly dismantles the order that the U.S. itself had laboriously constructed from the ashes of World War II, the U.S. will belatedly come to realize it has been its own worst enemy," Gupta noted.


U.N. General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has voiced concerns that the U.S. move could affect the important work of UNESCO.


Lajcak said the United States has a crucial role to play in multilateral cooperation and need to continue to engage with the work of UNESCO.


Echoing the appeal, French Ambassador to the United Nations Francois Delattre has asked the United States not to leave the Paris-based UNESCO.


"UNESCO is about promoting our ideals and values through culture nike odyssey react shoes cheap , education and science. These values and ideals are very much part of France's DNA, but also (part of) America's DNA," said Delattre.


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MELBOURNE, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Two football players at Australia's biggest sporting club have been banned from all sports for two years after testing positive to the prohibited drug clenbuterol.


Josh Thomas and Lachie Keefe nike epic react mens 9.5 cheap , from the Collingwood Magpies in Australia's native football league, the AFL, announced on Monday that they would accept the bans imposed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.


Collingwood, the biggest and most powerful football club in Australia, has also announced it would be cutting the players from its squad.


The bans have been backdated to March this year - when the pair were first provisionally suspended - meaning both Keefe and Thomas are ineligible to play any form of competitive sport until March 2017.


Clenbuterol is a substance which aides breathing and oxygen intake nike epic react womens triple black cheap , and is banned by the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA).


The players believe they unknowingly and accidentally consumed clenbuterol when taking another illicit substance while at a festival in February.


Collingwood chief executive officer Gary Pert said on Monday both the club and the players had agreed to the sanctions.


"We accept this was a case of two young men who made poor decisions to consume illicit drugs, a decision they will regret forever," Pert told the press conference.


"They have let down their families and their teammates, and they have damaged their reputation."


However Pert admitted the pair could be redrafted once the bans are lifted, saying there could be "light at the end of the tunnel" for both Thomas and Keefe.


The news is the latest controversy surrounding the AFL and doping allegations; Fremantle Dockers player Ryan Crowley was suspended in June for 12 months for taking a non-prescribed painkiller in 2014 nike epic react off white cheap , while Essendon Football Club is still facing an appeal lodged by WADA regarding the controversial drug supplements program the club ran during 2012 and 2013.


BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer prices willcontinue to rise in July but the growth rate will likely slow dueto tame food prices and a weakening carry-over effect, according toa research note by the Bank of Communications.


The consumer price index (CPI.