{"id":2816,"date":"2011-10-25T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azconsulate.sk\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:18:52","slug":"azerbaijan-becomes-member-of-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/press-releases\/azerbaijan-becomes-member-of-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan becomes member of UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azconsulate.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Azerbaijan+OSN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2819\" title=\"Azerbaijan MFA Elmar Mammadyarov+UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\" src=\"https:\/\/azconsulate.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Azerbaijan+OSN-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Azerbaijan+OSN-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Azerbaijan+OSN.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azerbaijan becomes new non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council. First time in history, the country will fill a seat in the 15-member executive body for the period of 2 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azerbaijan claimed the non-permanent seat, awarded to an Eastern  European country, on the 17th round of balloting after it scored 155  votes from United Nations Member States in the General Assembly \u2013 well  clear of the necessary two-thirds majority of States present and voting.  Slovenia received 13 votes and Hungary one vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Besides Azerbaijan, 193 members of the General Assembly also chose Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo last week.\u00a0 These five countries will hold their seats for 2 years from January 1, 2011 and thereby replace countries, whose mandates end by the end of this year (Bosnia, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The five new members will join Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal and  South Africa, whose terms end on 31 December 2012, and the five  permanent Council members, which each wield the power of veto \u2013 China,  France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=40174&amp;Cr=security+council&amp;Cr1=\" target=\"_blank\">www.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, October 25, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.azconsulate.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}