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The Taliban, Afghanistan s new rulers for a matter of weeks, are challenging the credentials of their country s former UN ambassador and want to speak at the General Assembly s high-level meeting of world leaders this week, the international body says.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers want to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as the country's new UN ambassador.
The group said that the world "no longer recognise" Ashraf Ghani as president and that Ghulam Isaczai no longer represents Afghanistan as ambassador to the UN.