Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland elected non-permanent members of UN Security Council

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland elected non-permanent members of UN Security Council

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Category : International Published on: June 14 2022

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Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, and Switzerland were elected non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for a two-year term.
The newly elected members will take up their new responsibilities on Jan 1, 2023, and will serve till Dec 31, 2024.
They will replace the outgoing non-permanent members of India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway.
Among the five newly elected members, Mozambique and Switzerland have never served on the Security Council.
The Security Council has 15 members, five of which are permanent ones: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. The 10 non-permanent seats of the council are allocated by geographic region, with five replaced each year.

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