1967 United Nations Security Council election
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The 1967 United Nations Security Council election was held on 6 November 1967 during the Twenty-second session of the United Nations
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, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Algeria, Hungary, Pakistan, Paraguay, and Senegal, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1968. Algeria and Senegal saw their first election into the council.


Rules

The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election. In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows: *Two for
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countries, one of which being the "Arab Swing Seat" (held by Mali and Nigeria) *One for the Asian Group (now the Asia- Pacific Group"Asian group of nations at UN changes its name to Asia-Pacific group"
''Radio New Zealand International'', 2011-08-31.) (held by
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) *One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Argentina) *One for the
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(held by Bulgaria) To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.


Result

The election was managed by the then-
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Corneliu Mănescu of Romania. At this date the UN had 122 member states (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). Delegates of the member states were to write the names of the five countries they wished to elect on the ballot papers. There were no nominations prior to the election. Voting was conducted by secret ballot, and on a single ballot. 118 ballot papers were used. Source:U.N. General Assembly, 22nd session.
Official Record of the One Thousand Five Hundred Ninety-fifth Meeting
Held at Headquarters, New York, On Monday, 6 November 1967.'' (A/PV.1595) 6 November 1967


See also

* List of members of the United Nations Security Council * Pakistan and the United Nations


References


External links


UN Document A/59/881
Note Verbale from the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica containing a record of Security Council elections up to 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:United Nations Security Council election,1967 1967 elections
1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
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