{"id":36796,"date":"2021-09-13T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/myanmars-junta-vies-with-critic-of-coup-for-seat-on-un-assembly"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T04:00:11","slug":"myanmars-junta-vies-with-critic-of-coup-for-seat-on-un-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36796","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s junta vies with critic of coup for seat on UN assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides have applied for role, raising fears military leadership could be emboldened if chosen<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations will face a dilemma when its general assembly convenes next week, after both Myanmar\u2019s military junta and the country\u2019s shadow national unity government (NUG) launched rival bids to fill the country\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military, which seized power in February, has sought to replace the current representative, Kyaw Moe Tun, an outspoken critic of the coup. Both the junta and the NUG, which was set up partly by ousted politicians, are believed to have submitted applications to the UN\u2019s credentials committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/myanmars-junta-vies-with-critic-of-coup-for-seat-on-un-assembly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides have applied for role, raising fears military leadership could be emboldened if chosenThe United Nations will face a dilemma when its general assembly convenes next week, after both Myanmar\u2019s military junta and the country\u2019s shadow national &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36796\/revisions\/36797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}