The 2019 United Nations Security Council election was held on 7 June during the
73rd session of the
United Nations
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General Assembly, held at
United Nations Headquarters
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in
New York City
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. The elections are for five non-permanent seats on the
UN Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...
for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2020.
In accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules, whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the
various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:
*Two for the
African Group
The Group of African States, or African Group, is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 54 Member States from the African continent. The African Group is the largest regional group, and compose 28% of all United Nation ...
*One for the
Asia-Pacific Group
*One for the
Latin American and Caribbean Group
*One for the
Eastern European Group
The five members served on the Security Council for the 2020–21 period.
Notably,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines set a new record as the smallest ever Security Council member. Both
St. Vincent and the Grenadines and
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
were elected to the Council for the first time.
Candidates
African Group
* (withdrawn)
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Asia-Pacific Group
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Latin American and Caribbean Group
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Eastern European Group
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Results
African and Asia-Pacific Groups
Latin American and Caribbean Group
Eastern European Group
See also
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List of members of the United Nations Security Council
Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members.
Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold th ...
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European Union and the United Nations
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2019 in the United Nations
The following lists events that happened with or in collaboration with the United Nations and its agencies in the year 2019.
Leadership
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Secretary General of the United Nations
António Guterres, Ant� ...
References
External links
Results of the election on YouTube
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2019 elections
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...