Togo elected to Security Council

The UN General Assembly on Friday elected Togo to serve a two-year term as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. A fourth round of voting is slated on Friday afternoon to decide which from Azerbaijan, Slovenia and Hungary would fill the seat on the 15-nation UN body. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the UN General Assembly, announced that Togo will serve in the most powerful UN body from Jan. 1, 2012 to Dec. 31, 2013. The fourth round of votes are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. EDT ( 1930GMT) on Friday, he added. To win election, a country must receive a two-thirds majority of those countries present and voting, regardless of whether or not they are the only candidate in their region. In the first round, Morocco, Pakistan and Guatemala were elected to fill the seats of the non-permanent members of the Security Council. In the first and second round, Togo, Mauritania and Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Slovenia did not receive enough votes required for winning. In the third restricted round of votes, Azerbaijan won 93 votes and Slovenia, 99 votes. UN member states on Friday voted in the General Assembly by secret ballot for five non-permanent seats divided by geographical grouping -- three from the Africa and Asia-Pacific grouping, one from Eastern Europe, and one from Latin America and the Caribbean.