The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Monday indefinitely postponing the international recognition of Afghanistan’s Taliban and Myanmar’s military junta, which would see their envoys accredited at the global forum.

A resolution, modeled on an agreement last week by the influential UN Credentials Committee that includes the United States, Russia and China, was adopted by consensus without a vote by the UN member states.

Last week, the committee recommended to “defer its decision on the credentials pertaining to the representatives of Myanmar” and Afghanistan during the current session of the General Assembly, which ends in September 2022.

No further meetings of the nine-nation committee, chaired by Sweden, are expected in the short to medium term. For Afghanistan and Myanmar, competing applications for accreditation from both old and new regimes were on the table at the UN……..
https://www.dawn.com/news/1662340/un-shelves-decision-on-afghanistans-representation