They are going to serve via the tip of 2027 on the UN physique accountable for sustaining worldwide peace and safety.
They are going to be a part of the 5 non-permanent members elected last year – Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia – who will serve via 2026. The incoming members will succeed Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia, whose phrases finish in December 2025.
The Security Council has 15 members: 5 everlasting members – China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US – who maintain veto energy, and ten non-permanent members elected by the Common Meeting for staggered two-year phrases.
Elections are held yearly by secret poll, with seats allotted by regional group. Candidates should safe a two-thirds majority within the 193-member Common Meeting to be elected.
Vote tally
A complete of 188 Member States participated within the election, which required just one spherical of balloting.
Within the African and Asia-Pacific group, Bahrain obtained 186 votes, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) garnered 183 votes, and Liberia obtained 181 votes, with one nation abstaining.
Within the Japanese European group, Latvia obtained 178 votes while10 international locations abstained.
Within the Latin America and the Caribbean group, Colombia obtained 180 votes, with eight international locations abstaining.
Debut for Latvia
Latvia will sit down on the Council for the primary time in its historical past.
Except for Latvia, all of the elected international locations have beforehand served: Colombia seven occasions, the DRC twice, and Bahrain and Liberia as soon as every.
Regional teams
The non-permanent seats on the Safety Council are distributed in accordance with 4 regional groupings: Africa and Asia; Japanese Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Western European and different States group.
This 12 months’s election crammed 5 seats: two allotted to Africa, one to Asia-Pacific, one to Japanese Europe, and one to Latin America and the Caribbean.
