{"id":799407,"date":"2021-09-21T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=799407"},"modified":"2021-09-21T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:29:25","slug":"taliban-asks-to-address-world-leaders-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-asks-to-address-world-leaders-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Asks To Address World Leaders at UN"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ftaliban-asks-to-address-world-leaders-at-un%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=799407&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/United-Nations-scaled-e1632259417138.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)\u2014The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan&#8217;s U.N. ambassador, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi made the request in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday. Muttaqi asked to speak during the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly, which finishes on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres&#8217; spokesperson, Farhan Haq, confirmed Muttaqi&#8217;s letter. The move sets up a showdown with Ghulam Isaczai, the U.N. ambassador in New York representing Afghanistan&#8217;s government ousted last month by the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Haq said the rival requests for Afghanistan&#8217;s U.N. seat had been sent to a nine-member credentials committee, whose members include the United States, China and Russia. The committee is unlikely to meet on the issue before Monday, so it is doubtful that the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>foreign minister will address the world body.<\/p>\n<p>Eventual U.N. acceptance of the ambassador of the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>would be an important step in the hardline Islamist group&#8217;s bid for international recognition, which could help unlock badly needed funds for the cash-strapped Afghan economy.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres has said that the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban<\/span>\u2018s desire for international recognition is the only leverage other countries have to press for inclusive government and respect for rights, particularly for women, in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>letter said Isaczai&#8217;s mission &#8220;is considered over and that he no longer represents Afghanistan,&#8221; said Haq.<\/p>\n<p>Until a decision is made by the credentials committee Isaczai will remain in the seat, according to the General Assembly rules. He is currently scheduled to address the final day of the meeting on Sept. 27, but it was not immediately clear if any countries might object in the wake of the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>letter.<\/p>\n<p>The committee traditionally meets in October or November to assess the credentials of all U.N. members before submitting a report for General Assembly approval before the end of the year. The committee and General Assembly usually operate by consensus on credentials, diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>Others members of the committee are the Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>When the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>last ruled between 1996 and 2001 the ambassador of the Afghan government they toppled remained the U.N. representative after the credentials committee deferred its decision on rival claims to the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was postponed &#8220;on the understanding that the current representatives of Afghanistan accredited to the United Nations would continue to participate in the work of the General Assembly,&#8221; according to the committee report.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Mary Milliken and Grant McCool)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)\u2014The\u00a0Taliban\u00a0have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan&#8217;s U.N. ambassador, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799407","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\/799407","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799407\/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=799407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}