Five new members elected to UN Security 

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Published 20.22

 

The UN Security Council will meet at the end of May this year. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/TT

From the new year and two years onwards, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, Zimbabwe and Austria will become new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The countries were voted in at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, where the big surprise was that Germany did not receive enough support to be voted into the Security Council.

The five new countries take over after Denmark, Greece, Panama, Pakistan and Somalia, who are leaving the Security Council.

The five permanent members, the US, Russia, China, the UK and France, remain, as well as the five who took office on 1 January this year for a two-year term – Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Latvia and Liberia.