If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

Question

If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

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Answer 1

Nope, most certainly not.

In fact, we have a prime example of this in ROC/PRC (Taiwan and China). It took the UN over 20 years to recognize the PRC as the official government of China, and for the entire duration between 1949, when the Communists actually took over and the ROC government was driven out to Taiwan, and 1971 when the UN finally recognized the PRC, the official representative of “China” as a whole at the UN was the ROC.