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Election to the United Nations Security Council
1987 United Nations Security Council election
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Morocco
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The
1987 United Nations Security Council election
was held on 15 October 1987 during the Forty-second session of the
United Nations General Assembly
, held at
United Nations Headquarters
in
New York City
. The General Assembly elected
Algeria
,
Brazil
,
Nepal
,
Senegal
, and
Yugoslavia
, as the five new non-permanent members of the
UN Security Council
for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1988.
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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Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated. There was a total of 158 ballot papers.
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
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Conforti, Benedetto (2005),
The law and practice of the United Nations
, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, p. 61,
ISBN
9004143092
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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"
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Radio New Zealand International
, 2011-08-31.
External links
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- UN Document A/42/PV.40
Official record of General Assembly meeting, 15 October 1987
- 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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