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The Taliban asked in a letter to intervene in the current meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization ( UN ) that are being held in New York between this Tuesday and next Monday.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban minister for foreign affairs, requested the intervention in a letter addressed to the UN General Secretariat. In the letter, also announced their new representative to the organization , thus canceling the envoy of the previous government.
Despite the request, the Taliban are not expected to address the representatives of all member countries in the coming days , as it is up to a committee of the General Assembly to decide who can intervene in the UN on behalf of Afghanistan and that could occur after the current discussions in New York .
The letter will be discussed by a group of nine countries that make up the UN credentials committee, between e the United States , which is usually in charge of deciding, through consensus, who will represent a nation in cases such as Afghanistan .
Afghanistan is one of the topics on which the conversations have focused in the last scams dí as. Although leaders from multiple countries have contacted the Taliban to coordinate evacuations and aid, none have officially recognized their authority.
Among the obstacles that the insurgent group faces are the international sanctions that weigh on many of its leaders, including the person in charge of Foreign Affairs who wrote to the General Secretariat today .
The Security Council – where the US has veto power – it is who should decide on an eventual lifting of these sanctions, but for now not has entered to discuss in depth the issue.
With information from EFE.
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