1987 United Nations Security Council election

Election to the United Nations Security Council April 2020 15 October 1987 People's Republic of the Congo Venezuela 1954 Bulgaria 1971 y Unsuccessful candidate (Africa) 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 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.United Nations Security Council Repertoire of the practice of the Security Council 2008 178 United Nations Publications 9789211370300 https://books.google.com/books?id=C0FR2aSR1SoC&pg=PA178Benedetto Conforti The law and practice of the United Nations Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2005 61 9004143092 https://books.google.com/books?id=eOdMqtyxOS8C&pg=PA61 A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.Charter of the United Nations, Article 23 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,Resolution 1991 A (XVIII), dated 1963-12-17, in force 1965-08-31. the five available seats are allocated as follows: Two for African countries, one of them being the "Arab Swing Seat" (held by Congo and Ghana) 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 the United Arab Emirates) One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Venezuela) One for the Eastern European Group (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 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. MemberRound 1Round 2 151 — 146 — 144 — 132 — 104 113 61 42 2 —Benin 1975 1 — 1 — 1 —Libya 1977 1 — 1 —Romania 1965 1 —abstentions 0 3invalid ballots 0 0required majority 106 104 See also List of members of the United Nations Security Council Brazil and the United Nations References External links 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 Category:1987 elections 1987 Category:1987 in the United Nations Category:October 1987 Category:Senegal and the United Nations Category:Algeria and the United Nations Category:Nepal and the United Nations Category:Brazil and the United Nations Category:Yugoslavia and the United Nations