adminArgentina 182.
South Korea’s tally was 149 votes, and Luxembourg’s 131 after a second round of voting.
In the Asia-Pacific region South Korea needed the second round to beat Bhutan and Cambodia while, in the so-called “Western European and Others” group, Luxembourg prevailed over Finland.
Each year the 15-member council, the UN’s most powerful committee, renews five of its 10 non-permanent seats, assigning them on a regional basis.
The five holders of new seats take them up in January next year.
This is for a two-year stint.
The permanent members, wielding veto power, are the United States, China, France, Britain and Russia. — AFP.
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