The battle between the ousted Myanmar government and the military junta continues as both sides fight over country’s seat at the United Nations.
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) which will be held on September 14 in New York will see the junta and it’s opposition fight over which side represents the SouthEast Asian country.
Heads of States or their representatives will gather to discuss, debate and make recommendations on global issues, one of which will be who gets to represent Myanmar at the UN table.
“I think there will be a clash for who will be the representative of the U.N.,” said Ye Myo Hein, the head of Myanmar’s Tagaung Institute, according to reports from Voice of America.
It is the duty of the UN Credentials Committee to make a recommendation to the UNGA about whose credentials to accept.
The committee rarely accepts the credentials of an ousted government that does not hold power or control the territory, but it has been done before; Haiti in 1992, Sierra Leone in 1997.
The final decision, though, rests with the 193 countries of the General Assembly, as the decision made will give the winner, international legitimacy.
While the United States and other Western countries condemned the Myanmar coup, China and Russia have severally hinted support for the military.
Across Myanmar, the battle continues between the military and those opposed to the military coup d’etat of 1 February 2021, which ousted the democratically elected government.
Oppositions to the coup began with non-violent resistance in the form of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
The opposition aim is now to bring about a revolution and an end to the military’s decades-long dominance of political life in the country.
The revolutionaries have brought within their fold some of the armed ethnic organisations that have long fought against the military in the country’s borderlands, as it seems the country is on the brink of a civil war.
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