{"id":15721,"date":"2012-10-19T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/luxembourg-and-south-korea-elected-to-u-n-security-council\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:07:07","slug":"luxembourg-and-south-korea-elected-to-u-n-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/luxembourg-and-south-korea-elected-to-u-n-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg and South Korea elected to U.N. Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">UNITED NATIONS<\/span> Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.N. General Assembly<br \/>\nelected South Korea and Luxembourg -alongside Australia,<br \/>\nArgentina and Rwanda &#8211; to the 15-nation U.N. Security Council on<br \/>\nThursday for 2013 and 2014 after two rounds of voting.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Korea beat Cambodia and Bhutan to win the two-thirds<br \/>\nmajority of the 193-member General Assembly needed to secure the<br \/>\none Asia-Pacific seat. South Korea received 149 votes in the<br \/>\nsecond round of voting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg won over Finland to take the second of two seats<br \/>\navailable for the &#8220;Western European and Others&#8221; group.<br \/>\nLuxembourg picked up 131 votes. Australia won the first seat<br \/>\navailable to the group after the first round of voting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.N. General Assembly elected South Korea and Luxembourg -alongside Australia, Argentina and Rwanda &#8211; to the 15-nation U.N. Security Council on Thursday for 2013 and 2014 after two rounds of voting. South Korea beat Cambodia and Bhutan to win the two-thirds majority of the 193-member General Assembly needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}