{"id":15723,"date":"2012-10-19T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/rwanda-argentina-australia-elected-to-un-security-council\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:07:10","slug":"rwanda-argentina-australia-elected-to-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rwanda-argentina-australia-elected-to-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Argentina, Australia elected to UN 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 Rwanda, Argentina and Australia to the 15-national<br \/>\nSecurity Council on Thursday for 2013 and 2014.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Argentina were unopposed in their bids for the<br \/>\nAfrica seat and the Latin American and Caribbean seat, but<br \/>\nneeded to win a two-thirds majority of the 193-member General<br \/>\nAssembly. Rwanda won 148 votes and Argentina won 182 votes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australia beat out Finland and Luxembourg for the first of<br \/>\ntwo seats available in the &#8220;Western European and Others&#8221; group<br \/>\nwith 140 votes. Another round of voting is taking place to<br \/>\ndecide who wins the second seat. Cambodia, Bhutan and South<br \/>\nKorea are also competing for one available Asia-Pacific seat.<\/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 Rwanda, Argentina and Australia to the 15-national Security Council on Thursday for 2013 and 2014. Rwanda and Argentina were unopposed in their bids for the Africa seat and the Latin American and Caribbean seat, but needed to win a two-thirds majority of the 193-member [&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-15723","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\/15723","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=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}