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UNITED NATIONS. — Saudi Arabia, Chad, Nigeria, Chile and Lithuania were elected by the 193-member UN General Assembly yesterday to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council. They will replace Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo on the 15-member Security Council on January 1, 2014.
All five countries were elected unopposed, but they still needed approval from two-thirds of the General Assembly to secure their seats.
There are five veto-holding permanent members of the council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — and 10 temporary members without veto power. — Reuters.
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