Five new members elected to UN Security Council

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Xinhuanet

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Luxembourg to a two-year term in the UN Security Council

The two joined Argentina, Australia and Rwanda, which were elected earlier, to serve as new non-permanent members of the powerful UN body.

The new members will begin their term on Jan. 1, 2013, replacing Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal and South Africa, whose term ends on Dec. 31 this year.

The ROK and Luxembourg won their Council seats after two rounds of secret ballot, garnering 149 and 131 votes from the 193 UN member states respectively, according to Vuk Jeremic, the president of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly who presided over the voting.

Rwanda won 148 votes, Argentina 182 and Australia 140 in the first round to get elected.

Under the UN Charter, the 15-member Security Council has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.

To be elected to the Council, a country must win support from two thirds of the General Assembly members, or 129 votes.

 

[WS-10 Engine]

Bye bye India!

 

[LOVETOALL]

Bye bye India!

India trying for permanent seat

 

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India trying for permanent seat

Ok...........

 

[AADHAAR]

Luxembourg and Korea are more deserving to join the likes of China, Russia, UK and France.

India joining only gives the UNSC more legitimacy, which it scant deserves. We should honestly keep away from it.

UNSC is a rubber stamp on one country's agenda ... and everybody knows which that country is.

 

[r3alist]

Luxembourg and Korea are more deserving to join the likes of China, Russia, UK and France.

India joining only gives the UNSC more legitimacy, which it scant deserves. We should honestly keep away from it.

UNSC is a rubber stamp on one country's agenda ... and everybody knows which that country is.

luexembourg...no way.....they are barely a state, no offense, but what autonomy will they have, they cant even pretend to......

 

[Thorough Pro]

Luxembourg and Korea are more deserving to join the likes of China, Russia, UK and France.

India joining only gives the UNSC more legitimacy, which it scant deserves. We should honestly keep away from it.

UNSC is a rubber stamp on one country's agenda ... and everybody knows which that country is.

And india has been trying hard for the last 10 years to become a part of that rubber stamp........a case of sour grapes......

 

[AADHAAR]

And india has been trying hard for the last 10 years to become a part of that rubber stamp........a case of sour grapes......

I never said that India being a part of unsc, made it less of a rubber stamp... during the last two years.

A rubber stamp is a rubber stamp .... !

And what's about "sour grapes" - if that's so, we got the sour grapes two years back, ate them and have excreted them by now.

I believe you are confusing between election of non-permanent members (which is the topic here) .... and the structural reforms being planned for UNSC which, apart from other things, includes more permanent members. And nobody knows, if the latter thing will change the rubber stamp ... like it or not.

And india has been trying hard for the last 10 years to become a part of that rubber stamp........a case of sour grapes......

I never said that India being a part of unsc, made it less of a rubber stamp... during the last two years.

A rubber stamp is a rubber stamp .... !

And what's about "sour grapes" - if that's so, we got the sour grapes two years back, ate them and have excreted them by now.

I believe you are confusing between election of non-permanent members (which is the topic here) .... and the structural reforms being planned for UNSC which, apart from other things, includes more permanent members. And nobody knows, if the latter thing will change the rubber stamp ... like it or not.

 

[KingMamba]

Luxembourg being selected is a joke, they cannot even guard their borders.

 

[baqai]

What does that have to do with being in SC? If they can't protect their own borders does not mean that they can't have vision or views on world peace? besides i think UNSC is nothing but drama in the end US will end up getting it's way while everyone in SC mumbling and threatening to do this and that.