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Palestinians Trigger Federal Provision for Defunding UN Climate Organization
(Washington Post) Eugene Kontorovich - 28 U.S. senators wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday demanding that, in compliance with U.S. law, no funding be provided to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which recently accepted the Palestinian Authority as a state. The move is part of the Palestinian effort to be declared a state without negotiations with Israel. Federal law bars any funding for UN agencies that grant the PA such status since, in the official U.S. view, "Palestine" is not a state. When the PA joined UNESCO in 2011, it triggered federal defunding of that organization. The writer is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.