At the headquarters in New York spent all 193 Member States of their vote. There are two free to allocate places for Western Europe. Sweden got a place with 134 votes in the first round.
As the Netherlands and Italy had no two-thirds majority, was voted a second time. The second, third, fourth and fifth round yielded no two-thirds majority.
In the last round were two countries 95 votes. “That’s a clear signal that you put our countries on price,” said Bert Koenders, Minister for Foreign Affairs after consulting with his Italian counterpart.
Koenders suggested that the seat is shared. Instead of one country over two years at the table, Italy and the Netherlands were interim alternate
Variety
Italy would be in the period 2017 -. Are 2018 in the council, while Netherlands then the subsequent period (2018-2019) would join the board. Koenders got applause for the proposal.
The President of the General Assembly suspended the subsequent meeting. Wednesday is again voted on.
unit
According to the Italian Minister Paolo Gentiloni of State is a sign of “unity” as the seat can be shared.
Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and Bolivia during the ballots received enough votes for its own temporary spot on the board.
Security
the Security Council is seen as the supreme body where international conflicts and crises are met. With a temporary seat Netherlands could take part in the meetings.
Since the Second World War has been Netherlands five times member of the Security Council, most recently in 1999 and 2000. Taking the winners of this year from 1 January 2017 in their place.
Campaign
the Netherlands has for years lobbied for a spot on the board. The government argued in recent days, a final offensive, Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) and Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development) traveled to New York.
Last September said King Willem-Alexander of the General Assembly UN increasing. It was the first time a Dutch head of state did. The Netherlands speech underlined his candidacy for a temporary seat on the Security Council.
Opportunities
Italy had, according to the experts, the best chance to win a seat. The location makes the country important in the refugee crisis. In addition, controls the country’s three candidates most troops to UN peacekeeping missions. However, Italy has more often been on the board than the Netherlands and Sweden.
Sweden has twenty years not been in the Security Council, but the Netherlands is not much less long ago. Both countries have a similar profile: small state, progressive and economically strong.
The Netherlands has the advantage that it has the third capital of the UN in the Hague. That seat since 2002, the International Criminal Court
Composition
The Security Council has five permanent members. China, France, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. The council has ten non-permanent members. Of the non-permanent members should have three from Africa, two from Asia and two from Latin America.
One country must be Eastern European, while the rest group of Western Europe, Canada and Oceania also further supplies two members, of whom one is certainly in Western Europe. African or Asian countries, there is always a Muslim.
Temporary members
Every year the General Assembly chooses five new members, who are in the Security Council two years session. The Presidency of the Council rotates monthly, and distributed in alphabetical order.
Germany, Brazil, India and Japan believe it is time for new permanent members and see themselves sit permanently on the Security Council.
veto
have veto five permanent members of the Security Council. During the Cold War there frequently made use of, which made the board regularly powerless. Although there are voices in order to remove the veto, the chance of that is minimal because the same permanent members with an opportunity to veto
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