A decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations (UN) ambassador to New York has been postponed for a second time, but could be reconsidered in the next nine months, according to a UN credentials committee report. The 193-member UN General Assembly (UNGA) is on Friday due to approve the report, which also deferred a decision on rival claims to Libyaís UN seat.

The nine-member UN credentials committee includes Russia, China and the United States. The deferment of the decisions leaves the current envoys in the seats for their countries, diplomats said. Competing claims were again made for the seats of Myanmar and Afghanistan with the Taliban administration and Myanmarís junta pitted against envoys of the governments they ousted last year. UN acceptance of the Taliban administration or Myanmarís junta would be a step toward the international recognition sought by both.

A rival claim was also made this year for Libyaís UN seat ó currently held by the Government of National Unity in Tripoli ó by a ìGovernment of National Stabilityî led by Fathi Bashagha and backed by a parliament in the countryís east. The UN credentials committee met on December 12 and agreed, without a vote, to ìpostpone its consideration of the credentialsî for Myanmar, Afghanistan and Libya ìand to revert to consideration of these credentials at a future time in the seventy-seventh session,î which ends mid-September next year.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP