The UN elected new non-permanent members of the Security Council, including Zimbabwe and Kyrgyzstan

On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly elected Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Portugal and Kyrgyzstan as non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations for the period of 2027-2028, reports TASR.

• The UN General Assembly elected Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Portugal, Kyrgyzstan.
• Non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council are allocated to regional groups of member states.
• Germany received the fewest votes in the Western Europe and other countries group.

The UN Security Council has 15 members, of which ten non-permanent seats are reserved for representatives of regional groups of UN member countries. Permanent members of the UNSC with veto power are the USA, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom.

New elections of UNSC members

The General Assembly on Wednesday elected five non-permanent members – one for Africa, one for Asia and the Pacific, one for Latin America and the Caribbean and two for Western Europe and others.

For the region Western Europe and others, Austria, Portugal and Germany, which received the fewest votes out of the three, were candidates. For the Asia-Pacific region, Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority of votes at first, and it was only the fourth vote that decided.

Slovakia is a candidate for the period 2028-2029

The five newly elected non-permanent members of the UN Security Council will replace Pakistan, Somalia, Greece, Denmark and Panama from January 1, 2027.

Slovakia is also running for a non-permanent member of the UNSC for the period 2028-2029. The election for this post will take place in 2027 in New York. The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Juraj Blanár, announced in February that more than 100 countries have already supported Slovakia’s candidacy in writing.