The five newly elected countries join Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland as non-permanent members of the UN Council.
UN General Assembly on Tuesday in New York elected Sierra Leone, Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea and Slovenia as non-permanent members of its Security Council.
The five new members will take up seats currently occupied by Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates when their two-year terms end on Dec. 31. They were among six countries vying for the five non-permanent seats around the Council’s horseshoe-shaped table that will become vacant at the end of the year.
The 10 non-permanent members are elected by the General Assembly which comprises all 193 UN member-states and is in line with geographical distribution by region.Voting is conducted by secret ballot and candidates must receive a two-thirds majority, or 128 votes, even if they did not contest to be members.
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