{"id":764,"date":"2021-09-22T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T10:25:24","slug":"taliban-ask-to-participate-in-un-general-assembly-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/taliban-ask-to-participate-in-un-general-assembly-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban ask to participate in UN General Assembly session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Taliban in letter says it should be represented at UN, not by ambassador under former President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 (AA): The Taliban sent a letter to the UN requesting to attend General Assembly meetings and fielded spokesman Suhail Shaheen as a candidate for UN ambassador.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid disputes over who will represent Afghanistan at the international body, the Taliban said in the letter addressed to the office of the UN secretary-general that it should be represented at the UN, not by the ambassador under former President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UN sources contacted by Anadolu Agency, Antonio Guterres received a communication with the letterhead &#8220;Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8221; dated Sept. 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter was signed by &#8220;Ameer Khan Muttaqi&#8221; as &#8220;Minister of Foreign Affairs&#8221; and requested to participate in the 76th session of the UN General Assembly from Sept. 21-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After countries send their candidates&#8217; names for ambassador, the candidates are approved by the UN General Assembly Credentials Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, UN envoy Ghulam Isaczai of the former government represents Afghanistan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban in letter says it should be represented at UN, not by ambassador under former President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s government UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 (AA): The Taliban sent a letter to the UN requesting to attend General Assembly meetings and fielded spokesman Suhail Shaheen as a candidate for UN ambassador.\u00a0 Amid disputes over who will represent [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,6],"tags":[332,331,333,60,66],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-world","tag-general-assembly","tag-participate","tag-suhail-shaheen","tag-taliban","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}