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Election to the United Nations Security Council
1972 United Nations Security Council election
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The
1972 United Nations Security Council election
was held on 20 October 1972 during the Twenty-seventh session of the
United Nations
General Assembly
, held at
United Nations Headquarters
in
New York City
. The General Assembly elected
Australia
,
Austria
,
Indonesia
,
Kenya
, and
Peru
, as the five new non-permanent members of the
UN Security Council
for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1973. In addition, Austria, Indonesia and Kenya were elected into the council for the first time.
Rules
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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.
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A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.
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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,
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the five available seats are allocated as follows:
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
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The election was managed by then-
President of the United Nations General Assembly
Stanisław Trepczy?ski
of
Poland
. The United Nations had 132 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see
Enlargement of the United Nations
). There were no nomination prior to the vote. Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.
See also
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References
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- ^
United Nations Security Council (2008),
Repertoire of the practice of the Security Council
, United Nations Publications, p. 178,
ISBN
9789211370300
, retrieved
3 November
2011
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Conforti, Benedetto (2005),
The law and practice of the United Nations
, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, p. 61,
ISBN
9004143092
, retrieved
3 November
2011
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Charter of the United Nations, Article 23
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Resolution 1991 A (XVIII)
, dated 1963-12-17, in force 1965-08-31.
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"Asian group of nations at UN changes its name to Asia-Pacific group"
,
Radio New Zealand International
, 2011-08-31.
- ^
U.N. General Assembly, 27th session.
Official Record of Two Thousand Seventieth Meeting
Held at Headquarters, New York, On Friday, 20 October 1972.
(A/PV.2070) 20 October 1972
External links
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- UN Document A/59/881
Note Verbale from the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica containing a record of Security Council elections up to 2004
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