{"id":57652,"date":"2021-09-26T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/26\/taliban-must-meet-its-commitment-before-gaining-un-recognition-blinken-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:17:34","slug":"taliban-must-meet-its-commitment-before-gaining-un-recognition-blinken-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2021\/09\/26\/taliban-must-meet-its-commitment-before-gaining-un-recognition-blinken-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban must meet its commitment before gaining UN recognition, Blinken says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s been little more than a month since Kalashnikov-toting Taliban fighters in their signature heavy beards, hightop sneakers and shalwar kameezes descended on the Afghan capital<\/a> and cemented their takeover. Now they\u2019re vying for a seat in the club of nations and seeking what no country has given them as they attempt to govern for a second time: international recognition of their rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban wrote to the United Nations requesting to address the U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders that is underway in New York. They argue they have all the requirements needed for recognition of a government. The U.N. has effectively responded to the Taliban\u2019s request by signaling: Not so fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afghanistan, which joined the U.N. in 1946 as an early member state, is scheduled to speak last at the General Assembly leaders\u2019 session on Monday. With no meeting yet held by the U.N. committee that decides challenges to credentials, it appears almost certain<\/a> that Afghanistan\u2019s current ambassador will give the address this year \u2014 or that no one will at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In multiple U.N. speeches this past week, a number of world leaders mentioned Afghanistan, including U.S. President Joe Biden and Afghanistan\u2019s neighbors, such as Pakistan, Iran and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States, which withdrew all its forces from the country last month in a chaotic airlift<\/a> that ended America\u2019s \u201cforever war<\/a>,\u201d says it is critical that the international community remains united in ensuring the Taliban meets a range of commitments before granting legitimacy or support beyond humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this is the message he delivered to the U.N. Security Council and others on the sidelines of the General Assembly this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. has \u201csignificant leverage when it comes to the Taliban,\u201d State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Friday. \u201cBut we have all the more leverage when we work in coordination and in harmony with our allies and partners around the globe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. can withhold or bestow formal acknowledgement on the Taliban, and use this as crucial leverage to exact assurances on human rights, girls\u2019 access to education and political concessions. This is where the power \u2014 and relevance, even \u2014 of the 76-year-old world body still holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afghan women march to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women’s Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. The interim mayor of Afghanistan\u2019s capital said Sunday that many female city employees have been ordered to stay home by the country\u2019s new Taliban rulers. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Afghanistan is a good, and perhaps extreme, representative case study of precisely why the United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, said Rohinton Medhora, president of the Center for International Governance Innovation in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re the U.N. and you want to represent the family of nations, then you want absolutely everyone of the family there \u2014 even you know, the distant cousin that not everyone\u2019s proud of,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the U.N. needs Afghanistan and countries to demonstrate the value of many of its operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Afghanistan, the United Nations can deploy the weight of its vast aid and development programs to show just how crucial its often underfunded agencies are in providing stability and security. The country is facing multiple humanitarian crises and near-total poverty due to fallout from the political situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are already growing calls for aid to be contingent<\/a> on ensuring girls\u2019 access to education. Despite promises to be inclusive and open, the Taliban have yet to allow older girls back to school, have curtailed local media freedoms<\/a> and returned to brutal practices <\/a>like publicly hanging dead bodies<\/a> in city squares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTaliban does not represent the will of the Afghan people,\u201d Afghanistan\u2019s currently accredited ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Nasir Andisha, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the United Nations recognizes the Taliban\u2019s claim to power, Andisha said, then it sends a corrosive message to others \u2014 be it in Yemen or in Myanmar \u2014 that they can take up guns, create violence, join with U.S.-designated terrorist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think for the world, for the United Nations, it\u2019s time to use this as a leverage,\u201d Andisha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban\u2019s appointed U.N. representative, Suhail Shaheen, a former negotiator and political spokesman, told The Associated Press that his government should be admitted into the club of nations and that \u201call borders, territory and major cities of Afghanistan are in our control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have support of our people and because of their support, we were able to continue a successful struggle for independence of our country which culminated in our independence,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have all the requirements needed for recognition of a government. So we hope the UN as an neutral World Body recognize the current government of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a dozen ministers in the all-Taliban Cabinet are on a U.N. blacklist, including the group\u2019s foreign minister, whom Andisha and other Afghan diplomats abroad are refusing to speak to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andisha was serving in Geneva under the U.S.-backed government of Ashraf Ghani when the president fled Afghanistan Aug. 15 to seek refuge in the United Arab Emirates as the Taliban encircled the capital. Ghani\u2019s government swiftly fell thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andisha is still holding meetings with representatives from countries around the world, imploring them to push for the resuscitation of intra-Afghan peace talks. He wants the United Nations to make clear that joining its ranks is not only about \u201cholding a country under the barrels of your guns and having enough population taken hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Qatar has urged countries not to boycott <\/a>the Taliban, and Pakistan called on nations to avoid isolating the Taliban,<\/a> and to incentivize them<\/a> to hold to their promises of renouncing terrorism and being inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Taliban\u2019s repressive time in power in the late 1990\u2032s, only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates recognized their legitimacy. During that era, the U.N. refused to recognize their government and gave Afghanistan\u2019s seat to the previous, warlord-dominated government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group was then ousted from power in 2001 by a U.S.-led coalition after the 9\/11 attacks for harboring al-Qaida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medhora, of the Center for International Governance Innovation, said the U.N. has levers it can use through its various agencies, such as UNICEF, which focuses on children, UNHCR, which assists refugees, and the World Food Program, all \u201cwhere the actual work of the U.N. gets done.\u201d This is another area where the United States has major sway as the the largest donor to the United Nations, contributing nearly one-fifth of funding for the body\u2019s collective budget in 2019, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enayat Najafizada, who runs an independent think tank in Kabul that monitors security issues in Afghanistan\u2019s provinces, said the U.N. should also facilitate negotiations between Afghan groups and bring the various countries with a history of meddling in the nation on board for the sake of regional security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithout forming an inclusive government, the country will move to a civil war,\u201d said Najafizada, founder of The Institute of War and Peace Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afghan children and women gather outside a bakery to get free bread in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo\/Felipe Dana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although what comes next for Afghanistan is far from certain, it is clear the Taliban do not want to be seen as global pariahs, said Kamal Alam, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey want a seat at the U.N. They want to go to Davos. They like the private jet lifestyle,\u201d he said, referring to the group\u2019s political elite who reside in exile in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s only the political leaders. The foot soldiers on the ground, there\u2019s no such thing as \u2018the new Taliban\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no new Taliban. Everything they\u2019re doing is a tactic to get recognition as well as not be isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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