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PARIS (AP) – UNESCO announced on Sunday the withdrawal of Nicaragua from the United Nations Cultural and Educational Authority for granting the UNESCO Award celebrating the press to the newspaper Nicaragua, not France.
Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director, Audrey Azouli, has announced that she had received a speech on Sunday morning from the government of Nicaragua to announce its withdrawal due to the UNESCO Award/Guillermo Kano International Freedom.
“I regret this decision, which will deprive the people of Nicaragua of the benefits of cooperation, especially in the areas of education and culture. UNESCO is completely delegated when it defends freedom of expression and freedom of the press all over the world,” Azzolai said in a statement.
Nicaragua was one of 194 member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO members established the Press Freedom Award in 1997, and the 2025 award was attributed to Saturday to La Prensa based on a recommendation from an international jury of media professionals.
UNESCO indicated that no France was established almost a century ago, in 1926.
“Since 2021, after imprisonment and expelled its leaders from the country, as well as confiscating its origins, La Prensa continued to inform the residents of Nicaragua online, with most of its team in exile and worked from Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico, Germany and the United States,” she said.
By announcing their withdrawal from UNESCO, the Nicaragua authorities accused La Prensa of promoting “military and political interventions by the United States in Nicaragua” and Etihad of granting the award as “a demonic expression of the traitorous anti -Butuwudic feelings,” said UNESCO. “
The angry departure of Nicaragua is a blow to the organization, which is also at the intersection of US President Donald Trump.
In an executive order in February, Trump called for a review of US participation in UNESCO. During his first term as president, the Trump administration announced in 2017 that the United States will withdraw from UNESCO, noting the anti -Israel bias. This decision began in effect after a year.
The United States officially joined UNESCO in 2023 after a five -year absence, under Joe Biden.
