{"id":1069212,"date":"2021-11-30T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069212"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:43:47","slug":"un-committee-to-vote-on-allowing-taliban-to-officially-represent-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-committee-to-vote-on-allowing-taliban-to-officially-represent-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Committee To Vote On Allowing Taliban To Officially Represent Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fun-committee-to-vote-on-allowing-taliban-to-officially-represent-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1069212&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United Nations Credentials Committee (UNCC) will vote Tuesday on whether to allow a Taliban-appointed representative to replace the country\u2019s current representative, appointed by the now-defunct government of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban called on world leaders to accept their representative, Doha-based Suhail Shaheen, as the official Afghan representative in September. The current representative is Ghulam Isacza, who was appointed by the Afghan regime the Taliban overthrew in August and early September.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the U.S. have called on President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to take a hard stance against Taliban recognition, arguing the regime has no credibility on human rights issues and cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder no circumstance should the United States, or any other country, vote to recognize the Taliban at the United Nations,\u201d Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the Daily Caller. \u201cIt should not be a difficult decision to keep a group of terrorists out of an organization founded to maintain peace and security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., Russia and China are each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/ar\/ga\/credentials\/credentials63.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">members of the UNCC<\/a>, alongside Mexico, Botswana, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Mozambique and Saint Kittz and Nevis. While none of the member countries have weighed in with an official position on replacing Isacza,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/28\/world\/asia\/china-taliban-afghanistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China<\/a> has taken a sympathetic stance toward the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban representatives called China \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/international\/beijing-is-our-most-important-partner-says-taliban-121090300723_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our most important partner<\/a>\u201d in early September, and China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/28\/world\/asia\/china-taliban-afghanistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offered the Taliban a \u201cwarm welcome\u201d<\/a> soon after its rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen has also said the Taliban is counting on Russia\u2019s support to be recognized. While Russian officials said Oct. 19 that recognition of the Taliban was \u201cnot on the table,\u201d they later clarified that Russia may recognize the regime if the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1352381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meets certain conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7322865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7322865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Intelligence Service spokesman Khalil Hamraz (R) and Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid participate in a press conference at the government media and information center in Kabul, on November 10, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>State Department press secretary Ned Price has remained vague on the U.S. stance for recognizing the Taliban, but also laid out a series of conditions the Taliban must meet if it hopes to secure recognition. <\/p>\n<p>Price&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/briefing-with-senior-state-department-officials-on-u-s-engagements-at-the-united-nations-and-on-the-margins-of-high-level-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. won\u2019t consider recognition unless the Taliban \u201ccontinue[s] to promote and allow free movement of people\u2026allow and support humanitarian assistance both by UN agencies and by NGOs [and] live up to commitments that they\u2019ve made to counterterrorism, whether it\u2019s coming from ISIS-K or whether it\u2019s coming from al-Qaida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s decision from the UNCC will serve as a recommendation ahead of an official vote in the General Assembly. The General Assembly has a number of options beyond simply replacing Isacza with Shaheen, however. It can postpone its vote on the issue virtually indefinitely, or vote to remove Isacza and leave the seat vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Credentials Committee (UNCC) will vote Tuesday on whether to allow a Taliban-appointed representative to replace the country\u2019s current representative, appointed by the now-defunct government of Afghanistan.The Taliban &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}