UN postpones decision on ambassadors from Myanmar, Taliban, Libya | United Nations News
The UN’s acceptance of ambassadors from the Myanmar military, the Taliban and the eastern Libyan government will serve as the first step towards their official recognition on the global stage.
The United Nations General Assembly has approved postponing a decision on whether Myanmar’s military government and Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders can send ambassadors to the United Nations in New York, and also adjourned the decision. on rival claims to Libya’s seat at the United Nations.
The 193-member General Assembly unanimously adopted the Certificates Committee’s recommendation to delay voting on the issues on Friday.
Delay means Myanmar’s current emissariesAfghanistan and Libya remain in place.
“The Commission has decided to postpone consideration of the credentials concerning the representatives of Myanmar, Afghanistan and Libya,” said Guyana UN ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, who chaired the commission that issued the credentials for the delegation. know.
The vote can now be adjourned until a future date during the ongoing 77th session of the General Assembly, which expires in September 2023.
The UN’s acceptance of ambassadors from Myanmar’s military government, the Taliban in Kabul and the east-backed government of Libya will serve as the first step towards their official recognition on the global stage. bridge.
Myanmar’s military rulers have been trying to fill the seat of the United Nations since the country was democratic elected leader Aung Suu Kyi to be stripped of power and then imprisoned after a military coup last year.
The General Assembly’s decision will keep Kyaw Moe Tun, a diplomat of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former government, in his post.
Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to 26 years in prison for corruption in a trial seen as politically orchestrated by the military.
Chris Gunness, director of the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP), called Friday’s decision an “important move of great diplomatic and symbolic significance, at a time when leaders of the illegal coup trying to gain international recognition.”
Afghanistan’s seat will continue to be held by officials under the nation’s former government President Ashraf Ghaniwho is eliminated by the Taliban in 2021 after US and NATO forces withdrew from the country.
The Taliban have committed protect the rights of girls and women When in power, however, the government in Kabul instead banned secondary education for girls and placed restrictions on work and dress codes for women.
The Taliban has also recently monitored First public execution in Myanmar since they returned to power.
Libya’s UN ambassador, Taher El Sonni, is also expected to continue in his current post as special envoy for the Libyan government based in western Tripoli. The oil-rich country has been in turmoil since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ended in the killing of its officials. longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya is once again engulfed in political crisis in 2021 after it failed to hold a long-anticipated election that split the country into two rival factions – in the east and west of the country. . The transitional government of Tripoli later rejected calls to resign and the country’s eastern leadership eventually appointed a rival prime minister who was intent on taking over the UN seat.
