In those ten members joined the five permanent members who are United States, Russia, France, Britain and China, which hold veto power. The General Assembly elected every year five of the ten non-permanent seats, divided by geographical region between Western Europe and Others, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. With this election, Colombia accompanied to Brazil as Latin American representative on the Security Council. The Colombian candidate, without competition from any other country in the region, had the backing of 186 countries and territories members of the international organization and the abstention of five.Ĭolombia already had virtually assured his election as Latin American representative in place of Mexico, which has completed its two-year period as one of ten non-permanent members of the Security Council, the UN body of stronger executive powers.
While continuing to vote to decide between Canada and Portugal, who are vying for another post. The UN General Assembly today elected Colombia and Germany to occupy during the biennium 2011-2012 one of the two non-permanent members of UN Security earmarked for the West.
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