{"id":37191,"date":"2021-09-22T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/taliban-ask-to-address-un-general-assembly-after-afghanistan-takeover"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:08:00","slug":"taliban-ask-to-address-un-general-assembly-after-afghanistan-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37191","title":{"rendered":"Taliban ask to address UN general assembly after Afghanistan takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers say the existing accredited UN ambassador no longer represents the country<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan\u2019s former United Nations ambassador and are asking to speak at the UN general assembly, a UN spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n<p>UN officials must now decide which representative to recognise, a month after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/taliban-raise-flag-over-presidential-palace-on-911-anniversary-as-brother-of-resistance-leader-slain\">Taliban swept into power<\/a> as the US prepared to withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/taliban-ask-to-address-un-general-assembly-after-afghanistan-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers say the existing accredited UN ambassador no longer represents the countryThe Taliban have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan\u2019s former United Nations ambassador and are asking to speak at the UN general assembly, a UN sp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[46,61,44,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37191","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37192,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37191\/revisions\/37192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}