1990 United Nations Security Council election

Election to the United Nations Security Council April 2020 1 November 1990 Ethiopia 1987 AUT state y The 1990 United Nations Security Council election was held on 1 November 1990 during the Forty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Austria, Belgium, Ecuador, India, and Zimbabwe, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1991. Rules The United Nations Security Council consists of 15 members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, five non-permanent members are elected to serve two-year terms, ensuring that half of the non-permanent seats are renewed annually.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: One for African countries (held by Ethiopia) One for countries from the Asian Group (now called 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 Malaysia) One for Latin America and the Caribbean (held by Brazil) Two for the Western European and Others Group (held by Canada and Finland) To be elected to the United Nations Security Council, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of members present and voting. If no candidate achieves the required majority in the first round, the process alternates between rounds of restricted and unrestricted voting until a result is reached.In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on. In unrestricted voting, any member of the relevant regional group, excluding current Council members, may be considered. The cycle continues with three rounds of restricted voting followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, repeating as necessary until a candidate is elected. 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 154 ballot papers. MemberRound 1AUT state 150 149 146 142 141 2 1 1 1* 1 1 1 1PER state 1 1 1Venezuela 1954 1 1*abstentions 0invalid ballots 0required majority 103 Note *: The President had stated before the balloting began that votes for States outside the relevant region would not be counted, consequently, the votes for this Eastern European State should not have been included in the results. See also List of members of the United Nations Security Council India and the United Nations References External links UN Document A/45/PV.36 Official record of General Assembly meeting, 1 November 1990 Category:1990 elections 1990 Category:1990 in the United Nations Category:November 1990 Category:Zimbabwe and the United Nations Category:India and the United Nations Category:Ecuador and the United Nations Category:Austria and the United Nations Category:Belgium and the United Nations