The U.N. ambassador representing Afghanistan's ousted government has asked to remain in the country's seat at the world body in New York, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday, setting up a showdown if the Taliban tries to appoint their own envoy.
Ambassador Ghulam Isaczai signed a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres with a list of Afghanistan's delegation for the General Assembly, Guterres' spokesperson Farhan Haq said.
Isaczai sent his accreditation request on Wednesday, Haq said, a day after the new General Assembly session started. U.N. credentials are dealt with by a nine-member committee appointed annually. The committee, named on Tuesday, is made up of the Bahamas, Bhutan, Chile, China, Namibia, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden and the United States.
The decision was postponed "on the understanding that the current representatives of Afghanistan accredited to the United Nations would continue to participate in the work of the General Assembly," according to the committee report.
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