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Germany wins UN Security Council Seat
14:47 - 01.07.11
Germany won a seat on the UN Security Council in a heated three-way
race, and Portugal claimed the second seat for Western bloc nations on
the UN's most powerful body, AP reported.
African, Asian and Latin American seats were uncontested so India,
South Africa and Colombia easily won on the first ballot in the
192-member General Assembly.
Ten of the Security Council's 15 seats are filled by regional groups
for two-year stretches, with five elected each year. The other five
seats are occupied by the council's veto-wielding permanent members:
Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. The five new
non-permanent members will replace Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and
Uganda, whose terms end on 31 December.
Germany's victory puts Europe's major economic power and the world's
fourth largest economic power on the council. "By any standards, the
council in 2011 could be the strongest group of UN and global
stakeholders ever assembled on the council," said Security Council
Report, a non-profit organisation that tracks the UN body's
activities.
Earlier, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, said that Germany, if
elected, will first "want to use this seat to increase our influence
on the reform of the UN... by working constructively and in a creative
way with the president of the General Assembly, who's obviously
primarily in charge of it."
Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
14:47 - 01.07.11
Germany won a seat on the UN Security Council in a heated three-way
race, and Portugal claimed the second seat for Western bloc nations on
the UN's most powerful body, AP reported.
African, Asian and Latin American seats were uncontested so India,
South Africa and Colombia easily won on the first ballot in the
192-member General Assembly.
Ten of the Security Council's 15 seats are filled by regional groups
for two-year stretches, with five elected each year. The other five
seats are occupied by the council's veto-wielding permanent members:
Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. The five new
non-permanent members will replace Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and
Uganda, whose terms end on 31 December.
Germany's victory puts Europe's major economic power and the world's
fourth largest economic power on the council. "By any standards, the
council in 2011 could be the strongest group of UN and global
stakeholders ever assembled on the council," said Security Council
Report, a non-profit organisation that tracks the UN body's
activities.
Earlier, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, said that Germany, if
elected, will first "want to use this seat to increase our influence
on the reform of the UN... by working constructively and in a creative
way with the president of the General Assembly, who's obviously
primarily in charge of it."
Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress