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2nd LD: Kazakhstan elected as non-permanent member of UN Security Council

Xinhua, June 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected Kazakhstan as a non-permanent member of UN Security Council in a second round of vote, following the election of Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Sweden.

The 193-member General Assembly has been voting to elect five non-permanent members of the 15-nation council on Tuesday. A two-thirds majority of 129 votes is needed for a member state to be elected.

In the second round, Kazakhstan garnered 138 votes, beating its competitor Thailand with 55 votes to win the seat for the Asia-Pacific region.

One more seat needs to be filled out in another round of votes which engages competition between Italy and the Netherlands. Neither of the countries garnered a two-thirds majority of votes in the second round.

The newly-elected members will replace the retiring members of Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, and Venezuela. They will join the other five non-permanent members of the Security Council, namely Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay.

The UN Security Council consists of five permanent members and 10 non-permanent members elected by the UN General Assembly. Five non-permanent members are elected every year to join the five permanent and veto-wielding members of Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

This year, the elections, which were previously held in October, have been moved to June in a bid to leave more time for elected member states to prepare for their terms.

According to the rules, the Security Council non-permanent seats should be distributed as five from African and Asian states; one from Eastern European states; two from Latin American states and two from Western European and other states. Endit