Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia elected as non perm members

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau

UNITED NATIONS, 7th June. UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected five new Member States to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council after a vote, according to the spokesman Stephane Dujarric in New York.

The 5 new members – Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia will join the elite the body to maintain international peace and security beginning January of 2024 for a two-year period.

The newly elected 5 non permament members of the council will replace the existing members – Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emiratewho will vacant the seats at the end of the year.

Security Council is composed of 15 Member States of which 5 Permanent Members China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States have the right to veto any resolution or decision on the Council.

The 10 non-permanent members are elected by the General Assembly which comprises all 193 UN Member States, and in line with geographical distribution by region.

The voting is conducted by secret ballot and candidates must receive a two-thirds majority, or 128 votes, even if they run uncontested.

192 countries voted to fill three Council seats allocated to the Africa and Asia-Pacific Groups, and one each for Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Slovenia beat Belarus in the race for Eastern Europe, received 153 votes versus 38, while Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone and the South Korea ran unopposed.

All 5 newly elected countries will join Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland as non-permanent members of the Council.

Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates two-year terms end on 31 December.