The nine-member committee is due to submit a report next week to the General Assembly, diplomats said.FILE - Anti-coup protesters hold signs that read "We Support NUG," which stands for National Unity Government, as they march on a street where vendors sell fresh products, Apin Yangon, Myanmar. ‘China, Russia and the United States were in the same position,’ one of them said. There was ‘consensus’ within the UN credentials committee to delay the decision, two diplomats said. The Taliban have been seeking international recognition for their new government as the country faces worsening economic and humanitarian disasters. Isaczai continues to occupy Afghanistan’s offices at the UN headquarters and participated in a recent Security Council meeting in which he openly criticised the Taliban.
‘We have the support of the people of Afghanistan and we are able to defend the country, the people and all the borders,’ he added to AFP. Shaheen on Twitter said the UN had ‘deprived the people of Afghanistan of their legitimate right’. The Taliban in September asked the UN to accept its former Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen to succeed Ghulam Isaczai, a cabinet member of ousted President Ashraf Ghani. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy government, sparking huge democracy protests which have triggered a bloody crackdown from the junta. The junta has denied any involvement and chosen former soldier Aung Thurein as its envoy to the UN body. In August US prosecutors said they had charged two Myanmar citizens in a plot to attack him.
He made headlines shortly after the putsch by flashing the three-finger salute of democracy protesters from his UN chair, brazenly defying the junta’s insistence that he no longer represents the country. The deferral leaves Kyaw Moe Tun, appointed by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, in place as Myanmar’s envoy. ‘We will continue submitting to the UN as usual according to diplomatic procedure and the right to representation in accordance with international and local laws,’ he added. ‘This decision does not reflect the reality on the ground and existence of our country,’ Myanmar junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said. The deferral keeps in place envoys appointed to the UN by former governments in both nations before they were toppled - by a coup in Myanmar in February and the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan in August. The committee responsible for approving nominations of ambassadors met Wednesday but deferred a decision over rival claims to the seats for both countries, diplomats said. Myanmar’s junta and the Taliban authorities of Afghanistan on Thursday slammed the United Nations for denying their chosen representatives seats at the world body.
In this file screengrab of handout video made available on the United Nations' YouTube channel on February 26, 2021, Myanmar's ambassador to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun makes a three-finger salute as he addresses an informal meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Quota-system of job distribution needs to be reformed.Government must protect civilians in frontiers.
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