{"id":8957,"date":"2020-06-18T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T09:42:58","slug":"india-elected-non-permanent-member-of-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/india-elected-non-permanent-member-of-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"India elected non-permanent member of UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">India was elected as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term after winning 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Along with India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway also won the Security Council elections held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">India was a candidate for a non-permanent seat from the Asia-Pacific category for the 2021-22 term. Its victory was a given since it was the sole candidate vying for the lone seat from the grouping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">New Delhi&#8217;s candidature was unanimously endorsed by the 55-member Asia-Pacific grouping, including China and Pakistan, in June last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Previously, India has been elected as a non-permanent member of the Council for the years 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992 and most recently in 2011-2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The UN General Assembly on Wednesday conducted elections for President of the 75th session of the Assembly, five non-permanent members of the Security Council and members of the Economic and Social Council under special voting arrangements put in place here due to COVID-19 related restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India was elected as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}