The Taliban, which now rule Afghanistan after overthrowing the elected-Government of President Ashraf Ghani, are unlikely to represent their country at the high-level United Nations General Assembly session as representatives of the ousted dispensation still occupy the office at the UN, a Pakistani media report said on Thursday.
Afghanistan is scheduled to address the ongoing UN General Assembly session on September 27.
On September 20, the Taliban-controlled Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, requesting him to participate in the 76th UNGA session in New York.
It was signed by Taliban leader Ameer Khan Muttaqi as the new Afghan Foreign Minister. A week ago on September 15, Guterres had received a letter from the currently accredited Afghan ambassador, Ghulam Isaczai, stating that he and other members of his team, still occupying the Afghan mission at the United Nations, will represent Afghanistan in UNGA.
On Tuesday, they attended the UNGA session addressed by US President Joe Biden.
“They will continue to occupy the mission until the credentials committee takes a decision,” a diplomatic source was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
