{"id":1103,"date":"2005-10-10T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2005-10-10T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T03:32:47","slug":"un-elects-five-new-security-council-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Elects Five New Security Council Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations has selected the next five rotating seats<\/a> on its Security Council.<\/p>\n

U.N. members on Monday elected the Congo Republic, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia to two-year seats on the 15-nation U.N. Security Council, the world body’s most-powerful organ.<\/p>\n

In balloting in the 191-nation U.N. General Assembly, four of the winning candidates were unopposed for seats earmarked for Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

In the sole contest — for the seat set aside for Latin America and the Caribbean — Peru defeated Nicaragua, 144 – 43.<\/p>\n

The Security Council is responsible for decisions on issues of war and peace, sanctions against nations and peacekeeping. Many of its resolutions are binding on all U.N. members.<\/p>\n

The council has five permanent members with veto power — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — and 10 rotating members who serve for two-year terms.<\/p>\n

The terms are staggered so that five of the nonpermanent seats change hands every year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Add those newbies to the five permanent members and mid-termers Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania and you have the group supposedly responsible for driving any global efforts. How confident are you in any decisive action? At least we now know which five countries will have representatives twiddling their thumbs on that high international stage.<\/p>\n

By the way, it looks like any council expansion (blogged about here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) is currently DOA. As expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations has selected the next five rotating seats on its Security Council. U.N. members on Monday elected the Congo Republic, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia to two-year seats on the 15-nation U.N. Security Council, the world body’s most-powerful organ. In balloting in the 191-nation U.N. General Assembly, four of the winning candidates were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}