UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela, New Zealand, Spain, Angola and Malaysia were elected Thursday to coveted seats on the United Nations Security Council, while Turkey failed in its effort to join the U.N.’s most powerful body.
Neither Turkey nor Spain got enough votes in the first or second ballot of the election by the General Assembly’s member states. Spain made it in the third ballot. Special attention had been on Turkey as it is under growing pressure to do more about the war in Syria pushing up against its border.
The winners will join the council on Jan. 1 and serve through …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
