Five international locations elected to UNSC as non-permanent members

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland will substitute India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway on the horse-shoe desk from January 1 subsequent 12 months.

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland will be part of Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the UAE in addition to the 5 everlasting members China, France, Russia, the UK and the US as UNSC members for the 12 months 2023. (File photograph: AP)

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland have been elected to the UN Security Council as non-permanent members for the 2023-2024 time period and can substitute India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway on the horse-shoe desk from January 1 subsequent 12 months.

The 193-member UN General Assembly held elections on Thursday to elect the 5 non-permanent members for the two-year time period 2023-24.

For two seats within the Western Europe and different States class, Switzerland (187 votes) and Malta (185 votes) have been elected, for 2 seats in African and Asia-Pacific States Mozambique (192 votes) and Japan (184 votes) have been elected and for the one seat within the Latin American and Caribbean States class, Ecuador was elected with 190 votes.

India’s Permanent Mission to the UN congratulated the newly-elected members and wished “them the best for a fruitful and productive tenure.”

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland will be part of Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the UAE in addition to the 5 everlasting members China, France, Russia, the UK and the US as UNSC members for the 12 months 2023.

India’s two-year time period on the UNSC as non-permanent member will finish in December 2022, when it was additionally maintain the Presidency of the highly effective UN organ.

India has been on the forefront of the years-long efforts to reform the 15-nation Council, saying it rightly deserves a spot as a everlasting member of the Council, which in its present kind doesn’t symbolize the geo-political realities of the twenty first century.

On the problem of “categories of membership”, the G4 nations of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have stated that solely when the everlasting seats are expanded, can the selections of the Council replicate the pursuits of the broader membership.