5 international locations elected to serve on UN Safety Council

[ad_1] They may serve via the tip of 2027 on the UN physique answerable for sustaining worldwide peace and safety.

They may be a part of the 5 non-permanent members elected last year – Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia – who will serve via 2026. The incoming members will succeed Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia, whose phrases finish in December 2025.

The Security Council has 15 members : 5 everlasting members – China, France, Russia, the UK, and america – who maintain veto energy, and ten non-permanent members elected by the Common Meeting for staggered two-year phrases.

Elections are held yearly by secret poll, with seats allotted by regional group. Candidates should safe a two-thirds majority within the 193-member Common Meeting to be elected.

Vote tally A complete of 188 Member States participated within the election, which required just one spherical of balloting.

Within the African and Asia-Pacific group, Bahrain obtained 186 votes, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) garnered 183 votes, and Liberia obtained 181 votes, with one nation abstaining.

Within the Japanese European group, Latvia obtained 178 votes while10 international locations abstained.

Within the Latin America and the Caribbean group, Colombia obtained 180 votes, with eight international locations abstaining.

Debut for Latvia Latvia will sit on the Council for the primary time in its historical past.

Except for Latvia, all of the elected international locations have beforehand served: Colombia seven instances, the DRC twice, and Bahrain and Liberia as soon as every.

Regional teams The non-permanent seats on the Safety Council are distributed in response to 4 regional groupings: Africa and Asia; Japanese Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Western European and different States group.

This 12 months’s election stuffed 5 seats: two allotted to Africa, one to Asia-Pacific, one to Japanese Europe, and one to Latin America and the Caribbean.