5 nations win UNSC seats
AFP, United Nations
The United Nations Friday elected five new members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1 -- Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania. Japan takes its seat amid a full-on campaign by Tokyo to get a permanent seat on an expanded council under a series of reforms that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan would like to see enacted next year. The five will replace Angola, Chile, Germany, Pakistan and Spain among the council's 10 non-permanent members. The other five elected in 2003 have one year remaining: Algeria, Benin, Brazil, the Philippines and Romania. With the departure of Pakistan at year's end, Algeria will be the only Muslim nation remaining on the council.
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