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The United Nations is calling for the General Assembly in New York. The Taliban also want to speak there and are causing a tangible scandal at the UN.
Update, 09/22/2021, 8:55 am: This is putting the United Nations under pressure: The Taliban are demanding speaking time before the UN General Assembly in New York. After taking power in Afghanistan, the radical Islamic group wants to represent the country officially. The Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Chan Motaki informed the United Nations in a letter. In the letter, the Taliban argue that the then ruling President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan and de facto left the government to them.
The Taliban are causing a scandal during the UN General Assembly. Ghulam Isaczai, UN ambassador to Afghanistan and Ghani is currently taking part in this in New York. But according to the Taliban, Isaczai no longer represents the country’s government. They are therefore calling for him to be replaced by their own spokesman, Suhail Schahin.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shahin is to become Afghanistan’s UN ambassador, according to the wishes of the radical Islamists.
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It is not the first time that the Taliban have put the United Nations in such a mess. The group controlled much of Afghanistan as early as the mid-1990s. At that time, however, the country was still represented at the UN General Assembly by an ambassador from the previous government.
UN General Assembly: Five things more than 100 heads of government will talk about
First report from 09/21/2021: New York – When the United Nations calls for the General Assembly, they all come. More than 100 heads of state, heads of government or their representatives meet at the UN headquarters in the USA to discuss the most important issues on the planet in the future. It is the most important and largest multilateral assembly in the world.
The size of the delegations from the individual countries is limited due to the corona pandemic, and numerous member states only take part in the event virtually. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) are arriving from Germany. Steinmeier will give the speech for Germany in the plenary hall of the General Assembly on Friday. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) will not take part in the general debate.
Taehyung / V, Suga and Jin (from left to right), members of the boy band BTS from South Korea, in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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UN General Assembly in New York – Speeches by António Guterres, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping
The event opened in New York on Monday (September 20th) with a speech by the South Korean boy band BTS, broadcast live via YouTube and watched by millions of followers. The general debate will begin on Tuesday (21.09.2021) with a speech by UN Secretary General António Guterres, US President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, Head of State of the People’s Republic of China. The UN General Assembly is overshadowed by the dispute between the USA and France, triggered by a submarine deal between the states and Australia.
There are several points on the agenda of the UN General Assembly.
UN General Assembly: What the heads of state want to talk about
Return to multilateralism – After the short but very influential era under Donald Trump, the international community now wants to go back to multilateralism. Secretary General António Guterres is certain: “We need a multilateralism with teeth.” According to Guterres, Joe Biden created “a completely new environment” for international negotiations.
The conflict of the great powers – Tensions between China and the USA, on the other hand, had intensified under Donald Trump, but hardly relaxed under Joe Biden. Both countries are still in a trade war. The simmering conflict over Taiwan’s independence also weighs on relations. Biden and Xi will speak to the meeting in person during the course.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on the way to New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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UN General Assembly: Climate change should become an issue
The climate change – According to the Al Jazeera news agency, the UN General Assembly is “the last opportunity for member states to agree concrete steps to reduce CO2 emissions” before the United Nations will meet again on the subject in November – but then in Scotland and as part of the UN climate conference.
Corona vaccination inequalities – The dramatic gap between the rich north and the poor south is also evident in the fight against the coronavirus. While the western industrialized nations are supplying their populations with corona vaccines, the poorer countries are largely left with nothing. Just two percent of the vaccines used worldwide were administered in Africa.
In addition, the organizers in particular fear that the UN General Assembly itself could become a super-spreader event. Brazil’s right-wing extremist President Jair Bolsonaro, for example, has repeatedly downplayed the risk of Covid-19 and is also traveling to New York unvaccinated.
UN General Assembly in New York – Taliban do not participate
Afghanistan – The takeover of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan is also to be discussed at the UN General Assembly. The radical Islamic group is not yet part of the United Nations and, according to Al Jazeera, has made no move to become one.
In addition to Afghanistan, human rights violations in other parts of the world are also on the agenda of the UN General Assembly. Louis Charbonneau, UN director for the surveillance of human rights, called in a statement on the heads of state to speak “openly and directly about the human rights crisis in the world, in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, China and elsewhere”. (dil with agencies)
Rubric: © Sergei Savostyanov via www.imago-images.de
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