New York: The United Arab Emirates was elected unopposed as a non-permanent member to the United Nations Security Council for the period 2022-2023.
This marks only the second time in the UAE’s history that the country holds one of the elected seats at the Security Council.
Albania, Brazil, Gabon, and Ghana were the other four non-permanent members elected for the two-year term.
They will replace the outgoing non-permanent members of Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia, and Vietnam.
The Security Council has 15 members, five of which are permanent ones: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
The 10 non-permanent seats of the council are allocated by geographic region, with five replaced each year. AFP
