The Taliban nominate a U.N. envoy, complicating a quandary for the General Assembly.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : A seat at the United Nations carries symbolic significance, a benchmark of a government's credibility and acceptance in the world community even if rivals oppose it.
56% : United Nations membership affords governments an opportunity not only to speak and be heard in the General Assembly, but also to participate in a range of other U.N. agencies like the World Health Organization and Human Rights Council.
50% : The Taliban have nominated an ambassador to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations, U.N. officials said Tuesday, injecting a new twist into what was already a delicate diplomatic quandary in the global organization.
50% : Envoys from all kinds of political systems, including parliamentary democracies, monarchies and dictatorships, have long worked at the United Nations, the one place in the world where even governments that reject one another's ideologies enjoy some measure of equal standing.
40% : But it raised the startling prospect that the Taliban -- the violent, extremist Islamic movement that retook power last month as the American-backed government collapsed -- would occupy an ambassador's seat at the United Nations.
36% : "We can't say, 'I don't like this government,'" Mr. Bozkir said, when seeking to resolve United Nations disputes over who is -- and is not -- a country's rightful envoy.

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