UN elects 5 security council non-permanent members

Council for the 2012-2013 period.
Those elected will replace Brazil, Gabon, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Lebanon.

The only candidate that has already guaranteed one of these positions is Guatemala.
Guatemala has never made up the United Nations Security Council.
The country has been largely supported by the regional group of Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC) for months now.

Togo, Morocco and Mauritania are the candidates from Africa.
Azerbaijan and Slovenia from Eastern Europe, and Kirghizstan and Pakistan from Asia.
In order to join the council, candidates must win two-thirds of the secret votes at the UN plenary (128 if the 198 member countries take part in the vote).

Those who are elected will join Colombia, South Africa, India, Germany and Portugal, in the category of non-permanent members, and the US, UK, France, Russia and China, which enjoy a lifetime membership and veto power.

On Monday, the UN General Assembly will elect 18 of the 54 member of the Economic and Social Council 14 from Africa.
They will elect 11 from Asia, six from Eastern Europe, 10 from Latin America and the Caribbean and 13 from Western Europe.
The Latin American candidates already endorsed by the regional group are Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

The election of five judges of the International Court of Justice from a list of candidates that includes Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Tsvetana Kamenova (Bulgaria) and Abdul Koroma (Sierra Leone), is scheduled later for November 10.

Hasashi Owada (Japan), Julia Sebutinde (Uganda), El Hadji Mansour Tall (Senegal), Peter Tomka (Slovakia) and Xue Hanqin (China) are also candidates for the position. – Prensa Latina.