KABUL, 09 December 2021, (TON): The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to delay a decision on who will represent Afghanistan and Mynamar at the world body, meaning the envoys appointed by the former governments will remain in place.

Last week, the UN Credential Committee did not make a decision about Afghanistan’s seat and put it on hold for the General Assembly to decide.

The General Assembly approved the Credential Committee’s decision and deferred a decision on who will represent Afghanistan at the UN, which means Ghulam Mohammad Ishaqzai, the former government ambassador to the UN, will remain in his place.

The resolution was adopted by consensus. The Credential Committee’s chair, Ambassador Anna Karin Eneström of Sweden, introducing the committee’s report to the UN General Assembly said “the Committee deferred its decision on the credentials pertaining to the representatives of Myanmar and on the credentials pertaining to the representatives of Afghanistan to the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly.”