The United Nations Security Council has five new non-permanent members.

Panorama of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

On June 6, the United Nations General Assembly elected Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia as five new non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

According to a VNA reporter in New York, representatives of 192 member countries at the United Nations General Assembly voted to replace three non-permanent members of the Security Council representing the African and Asia- Pacific regions; one seat representing Eastern Europe and one seat representing Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ahead of the vote, only Eastern Europe has two candidates, Slovenia and Belarus, running, while other regions have only one candidate.

According to the plan, the five newly elected countries will begin their two-year term from January 1, 2024, and replace the outgoing non-permanent members including Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The five remaining non-permanent members are Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland.

The Security Council has 15 members including 5 permanent members: the US, Russia, France, UK, China; and 10 non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for a 2-year term and distributed geographically.

The Security Council is the most powerful body of the United Nations and only the Security Council has the right to make legally binding decisions, such as imposing sanctions and authorizing the use of force to maintain world peace and security./.

According to VNA

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