Frances Martel 6 May 2025
A top diplomat representing the Taliban terror organization ruling Afghanistan demanded representation for the group at the United Nations this week, insisting the Taliban’s participation in the global organization was a “necessity and a right.”
Suhail Shaheen, who has represented the Taliban in negotiations with the U.N. in the past and now runs the group’s embassy in Qatar, noted that the Taliban has been the uncontested government of Afghanistan for nearly four years and insisted that the group deserves some say in the operations of the United Nations.
“The presence of a representative from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan at the United Nations is both a necessity and a right of the Islamic Emirate’s government,” Shaheen told the Afghan Tolo News outlet in remarks published on Sunday. “Through such a representative, solutions to various issues can be pursued.”
The Taliban formally refers to itself as the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” to distinguish itself from the former, legitimate government of the country, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. It has not been officially recognized as the legitimate government of the country by any state actor since it toppled the Afghan government on August 15, 2021, when its members stormed Kabul, the nation’s capital, and sent then-President Ashraf Ghani fleeing in a helicopter.
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