A United Nations credentials committee on Wednesday decided against allowing the Taliban to represent Afghanistan at the world body. After a closed door meeting on Wednesday, the chairwoman of the nine-nation Credentials Committee of the General Assembly, which approves the diplomatic representation of each U.N. member state, said the committee had chosen to defer its decision on who will represent Afghanistan. “The committee has decided to defer its decision of the credentials in these two situations,” Sweden’s U.N. Ambassador Anna Karin Eneström told reporters on Wednesday, also referring to a decision by the committee not to accredit an ambassador for Myanmar. “The report of the committee will be made public once it has been issued, for the consideration by the General Assembly,” she added. The decision means Afghanistan’s Taliban and Myanmar’s junta will not be allowed to represent their countries for now at the United Nations. With the deferral, committee …