A decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration. And the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations (UN) ambassador to New York has been postponed for a second time. But could be reconsidered in the next nine months. According to a UN credentials committee report.
The 193-member UNGA is expected to accept the report on Friday. Which also postponed a vote on competing claims to Libya’s UN seat. Russia, China, and the United States are included on the nine-member UN credentials committee.
The present envoys for their countries are still in their positions due to the decisions being postponed, according to officials.
The Taliban administration and Myanmar’s junta were set against representatives of the governments. They overthrew last year in competing claims for the seats of Myanmar and Afghanistan. A step toward the international recognition that the Taliban government and Myanmar’s junta seek would be the UN’s ratification of their respective governments.
The UNGA supported delaying a decision over Myanmar and Afghanistan’s credentials last year.
A rival “Government of National Stability” led by Fathi Bashagha and supported by a parliament in the country’s east also made a bid this year for the UN seat currently held by the Government of National Unity in Tripoli.
Without taking a vote. The UN credentials committee decided on December 12 to “postpone its examination of the credentials” for Libya, Myanmar. And Afghanistan, and to “revert to consideration of these credentials at a future time in the seventy-seventh session,” which concludes in mid-September 2019.
