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Pakistan Wins Seat On UN Security Council

October 21, 2011

UNITED NATIONS -- Pakistan has been elected as a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term beginning in January.

Pakistan secured the two-thirds majority required from the 193 UN members in the first round of voting.

It is the seventh two-year Security Council mandate for Pakistan, a veteran UN member state which is the second-largest contributor to UN peacekeeping forces.

The campaign also marked the first formal bid for a Security Council seat by Kyrgyzstan, even though that Central Asian country declared aspirations for a seat as far back as 1997.

Morocco and Guatemala also won seats on the 15-member council.

A second round of voting was required in a race between Azerbaijan, Slovenia, and Hungary for the seat being vacated by Bosnia-Herzegovina at the end of the year.

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan_wins_seat_un_security_council/24367434.html

Copyright (c) 2011. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.