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Security Council - Non-Permanent Members

June 10 , 2018 2360 days 915 0
  • The United Nations General Assembly elected five new non-permanent Members of the Security Council.
  • Each member serves two-year terms on the body that sets the UN’s whole peace and security agenda.
  • The elected member nations are Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, the Dominican Republic and Belgium.
  • They will fill the seats being vacated by Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
  • The other five non-permanent members who will remain on the Council are Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Peru, and  Poland.
  • This will be the Dominican Republic’s first time on the Security Council with the other four countries having previously served on the body.

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