The UN credentials committee decided today to postpone until a precise date the request of the Taliban government to be recognized as an official representation of Afghanistan with the right to seat in the UN.
Sources from the Swedish diplomatic mission, the country that chairs the committee, indicated that both the case of Afghanistan and Burma – where the military government arrived through a coup also requested official recognition – have been postponed, without further details, and they forwarded a final committee report in the next few days.
This report will later be presented to the General Assembly for approval, which is taken for granted, since there is usually no difference in criteria.
The Taliban’s request thus remains in the air for an indefinite period.
The Taliban had presented their official request for recognition last September, during the annual session of the General Assembly, claiming that they had the right to represent their country because they had total control of the territory and given the power vacuum left by a government that he had fled Kabul.
They even appointed their “ambassador to the UN” in the person of Suhail Shaheen, but the latter did not have the approval of the credentials committee at that time, which postponed its decision until today, and at the time Afghanistan had the right to speak in the assembly, the previous ambassador had resigned, so no one spoke on behalf of the Asian country.
Recognition or not by the UN is considered crucial for the Taliban regime, So far no country has taken that step, not even neighboring countries (Iran, Pakistan, Russia) as well as China, which have kept their embassies open in Kabul and have held high-level talks with the Taliban authorities.
