The other Nations are Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Saudi Arabia. The five Nations obtained the necessary two-thirds majority of those Member States in attendance and voting in the 193-member Assembly.
In a report issued by U.N. after the voting said the five countries were chosen in one round of secret balloting. They will substitute Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo, whose terms will end at the close of this year.
The five permanent members are United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and the USA.
Temporal members Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, the Republic of Korea and Rwanda will stay in the Council until the end of 2014.
Under the UN Charter, the 15-member board has main duty for the maintenance of global peace and security, and all Member States are required to comply with its decisions.
Also, the Council takes the front step in determining the reality of a threat to the harmony or act of violence. It calls on the parties to a disagreement to settle it by nonviolent means and gives methods of correction or terms of settlement. In other cases, it can resort to striking sanctions or even allow the use of force to sustain or restore global peace and security.
Nigeria campaigned strongly for the seat, with President Goodluck Jonathan top campaign. An instance of such campaign was apparently in his speech during the beginning of the ongoing 68th conference of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where the president gave emphasis to the need for Nigeria to come back to the UNSC seat.
Also to increase Nigeria’s chances, performing Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, departed from the State on Monday night for New York, to front the final campaign for Nigeria’s election into the UNSC seat.
The minister had, on the margins of the High Level Segment of the 68th Session of the UNGA, gave bilateral talks alongside Gambian Foreign Minister, Mrs. Susan Ogoo, whose country was also in for the position, but does not have the support of AU or ECOWAS endorsement.
The performing Minister of Foreign Affairs campaigned strongly at diverse international stations for Nigeria’s candidature. She had over 15 bilateral meetings at the 68th meeting of UNGA, as well as the Nigerian Day planned by the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN on October 8, in New York, where Nigeria also pleaded for the hold up of the invited nations. About 174 countries pledged to support Nigeria’s candidacy.
http://www.ngnewspapers.com/nigeria-secure-security-council-seat/
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