(VOVworld)-The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to a two-year term in the UN Security Council, the organization's most powerful body.
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A delegate of Chad celebrates for Chad's being elected as one of five non-permanent members of the UN Security Council (Photo:Reuters)
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The new members will begin their two-year term on Jan. 1, 2014, replacing Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo. All five new council members were elected in a single round of secret ballots at the General Assembly. Chad, Saudi Arabia and Lithuania have never before served on the most powerful UN body, while Nigeria and Chile have both been on the council four times previously.