从那以后，东土耳其斯坦就名存实亡了，仅仅作为非联合国会员国家及民族组织（简称UNPO，一个成立于1991年，旨在与联合国分庭抗礼的组织）的成员存在。
Since then, East Turkestan has existed solely on paper, as a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), a would-be competitor of the United Nations set up in 1991.