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UN defers decision on Taliban nominee Shaheen

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KABUL (Pajhwok): The UN Credentials Committee has delayed its decision on who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar at the world body.

The deferral, an expected outcome, means the Afghan Taliban and Myanmar junta will not be let into the United Nations for now.

Nominees of the Taliban and Myanmar's junta were pitted against ambassadors appointed by the governments they unseated this year.

Reuters quoted Sweden's UN Ambassador Anna Karin Enestrom, chair of the panel, as telling journalists the decisions had been deferred.

However, she refused to comment on whether the current ambassadors for Afghanistan and Myanmar would still . . .

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