Election of the Safety advice of UNO of 2006

The election of the Safety advice of UNO of 2006 began the October 16th 2006 during the 61e session of the general meeting of the the United Nations, which was held with the Siège of the United Nations to New York. The stake of the vote is the choice of five nonpermanent seats to the Safety advice for some two years mandates beginning on January 1st 2007.

According to the payment of the safety advice, and rotation of the ten not-permanent seats between geographical areas, the five seats to provide this year are distributed between the continents in this manner:

a seat for the Africa;
a seat for the Asia;
two seats for the Group of the States d' Europe Western and other States;
a seat for the Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sit African

The South Africa was the only African nation to aspire to a seat at the Safety advice. Replacing the Tanzania, South Africa between for the first time at the Safety advice, 2007-2008. It accepted 186 votes.

Asian seat

There were two countries to aspire to a seat: the Indonesia, and the Nepal.
Indonesia will replace Japan over the period 2007-2008.

Sit Western Europe and other groups

This group, composed of 23 country like Turkey, Israel, Canada, the United States, Australia, or New Zealand, had two vacant seats: those of the Denmark and the Greece.

The Italy and the Belgium respectively accepted 186 and 180 votes - with three abstentions - and entered to the safety advice over the period 2007-2008.

Sit Latin America and the Caribbean

This group named two candidates, the Guatemala and the Venezuela, for a seat over the period 2007-2008, occupied previously by the Argentine.

Guatemala is supported by the majority of the group of the countries of Western and different Europe, the United States at the head. It is one of the six nations signatory of the Charte of the United Nations to its creation not to have been member of the Safety advice (with Haiti, El El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia and Luxembourg).
Venezuela, chaired by Hugo Chávez, announced its desire to enter to the Safety advice in 2004; presented by its leaders as an alternative so that they regard as the Hégémonie of the United States. The country conducted an intensive campaign to find support, in particular in Africa, in Asia, and in the Middle East; thanks to generous oil donations. This country was already member by four times of the council, in 1962-63, 1977-78, 1986-87, and 1992-93.

After 47 ballots, at November 2nd, 2006, neither the Guatemala nor the Venezuela had succeeded in obtaining the 128 votes necessary (two thirds of the voters at the General meeting which counts 192 Member States). It is finally with the profit of the Panamá, candidate of consensus, that the two countries will be withdrawn. November 7th, 2006, Panamá is elected nonpermanent member at the Safety advice for two years, by 164 votes with the 48e ballot.

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