UN / Islamabad: Taliban, who now ruled Afghanistan after overthrowing the government of President Ashraf Ghani, it was impossible to represent their country in the high UN General Assembly session as a representative of the contributed dispensation still occupying the UN office, said a Pakistani media report on Thursday.
Afghanistan is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly session which is ongoing on September 27.
On September 20, the Afghan Foreign Ministry controlled Taliban sent a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who asked him to participate in the 76th UNGA session in New York.
It was signed by Taliban leader Ameer Khan Muttaqi as a new Afghan foreign minister.
A week ago on September 15, Guterres has received a letter from the current accredited Afghan Ambassador, Ghulam Isaczai, stated that he and his other team members, still occupying Afghanistan mission at the United Nations, will represent Afghanistan in Unga.
On Tuesday, they attended the Unga session handled by US President Joe Biden.
“They will continue to occupy missions until the credential committee makes a decision,” diplomatic sources were quoted by the Fajar newspaper.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has confirmed receiving both letters.
In his letter, the Taliban leader Muttaqi said that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was “overthrown” on August 15 and therefore the messenger no longer represented Afghanistan, according to Dujarric.
The Nine Nine Member Credential Committee, which made such a decision, could not meet before September 27, and even if it happened, it was unable to resolve the dispute in the remaining two or three days, the newspaper said.
It was said that the Guterres office had sent both letters to the committee after consulting with the President of the General Assembly Abdulla Shahid from Maldives.
Today’s committee members include the US, Russia, China, Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Sweden.
The US is in no hurry to support the demand for Taliban to join the United Nations as a legitimate Afghan government, the report said.
According to officials of the Senior Department of Foreign Affairs, they realized the Taliban request but the deliberations “would take time”, indicating that the Taliban representatives would not discuss Unga on September 27.
However, one possibility is not to allow the Afghan current ambassador to overcome the meeting because it would show support for the previous government, and would have a broad impact, the report said.
“But the former Afghan government still has support in the United Nations and it seems that India leads the campaign to let the messenger discuss the General Assembly.” Allows a Taliban leader to overcome the General Assembly will be interpreted as a UN who recognizes new arrangements in Kabul and the United Nations are not ready to do that, ” The report said.
When the last Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, the United Nations did not recognize their government and gave the Afghan seat to the previous government from President Burhanuddin Rabbani, he said.
According to US media, this time the United Nations can be soft for the Taliban but only if they are Forming a more inclusive government, guarantees human rights, allowing girls to return to school and women to go to work.
Meanwhile, Afghan Prime Minister Mullah Hassan Akhund, at a meeting with special envoys from Pakistan, China and Russia in Kabul on Tuesday , it has convinced them To work to meet international demand, including the formation of inclusive government, protecting women and human rights, the Tribune Express newspaper reported.
The Taliban agreed that they had to include members of all ethnicities in the government because they believed that “Afghanistan was for everyone”, the report said, adding that special envoy was also told that there would be no limit to the girls’ education but it will be done accordingly “Sharia”.
The report said that Taliban leaders pay attention to the fact that they must work with the international community and that is the reason they are willing to overcome the worries of the outside world.
Taliban asked China and Russia for their support for efforts to release foreign exchange reserves.
The US has freezed around $ 9.5 billion Afghan foreign reserves since the Taliban took Kabul’s control on August 15.
The Taliban cannot participate in Unga; the diplomat of the government which was overthrown was still in the office
