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IEA not allowed into United Nations for now
A decision on whether the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations 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.
Competing claims were again made for the seats of Myanmar and Afghanistan with the IEA administration and Myanmar’s junta pitted against envoys of the governments they ousted last year. UN acceptance of the Taliban administration or Myanmar’s junta would be a step toward the international recognition sought by both.
The UN credentials committee met on Dec. 12 and agreed, without a vote, to “postpone its consideration of the credentials” for Myanmar, Afghanistan and Libya “and to revert to consideration of these credentials at a future time in the seventy-seventh session,” which ends mid-September next year.