General Assembly: 86th plenary meeting, 80th session

Good morning.
Please take your seats.
The 86th planner meeting of the General Assembly is called to order.
The Assembly will proceed to the election of five non permanent members of the Security Council to replace the members whose term of office expires on December 31st, 2026, under sub item B of agenda item 113.
The five outgoing non permanent members are Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia.
These five states are not eligible to be re elected today.
Their names therefore should not appear on the ballot papers.
Apart from the five permanent members, the Security Council will include the following states in 2027, Baraine, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia.
The names of these states therefore should also not appear on the ballot papers.
Of the five non permanent members which will remain in office in 2027, two are from the African states, one is from the Asia Pacific States, one is from the Latin American and Caribbean states, and one is from the Eastern European states.
Pursuant to paragraph three of resolution 1991 A of the 18th session of December 17th, 1963, the five non permanent members should be elected according to the following pattern.
Two from the African and Asia Pacific states, one from the Latin American Caribbean states, and two from the Western European and other states.
The ballot papers reflect this pattern.
In accordance with the established practice, there is an understanding to the effect that of the two states to be elected from among the African and Asia Pacific states, one should be an African state and one should be an Asia Pacific state.
I should like to inform the Assembly that those candidates not exceeding the numbers of seats to be filled from each region receiving the greatest number of votes and a two thirds majority of those present and voting will be declared elected.
If the number of candidates obtaining a two thirds majority is less than the number of members to be elected, there shall be additional ballots to fill the remaining places.
The voting being restricted to the candidates obtaining the greatest number of votes in the previous ballot to number not more than twice the places remaining to be filled.
Also, consistent with the past practice, if due to a tie vote it becomes necessary to determine a candidate or candidates to be elected or that will proceed to the next round of restricted balloting, there will be a special restricted ballot limited to those candidates that have obtained an equal number of votes.
May I take it that the Assembly agrees to these procedures? It is so decided.
Regarding candidates, I've been informed of the following.
For the two vacantcies from among African and Asia Pacific states, three candidates have been communicated, namely Zimbabwe, who has been endorsed, Kyrgyzhstan, and the Philippines.
For the one vacancy from among Latin American and Caribbean states, one candidate has been communicated, namely Trinidad and Chicago.
For the two vacant seats from among the Western European and other states, three candidates have been communicated, namely Austria, Germany, and Portugal.
In accordance with Rule 92 of the rules of procedure, we shall proceed now to the election by secret ballot.
Before we begin the voting process, I should like to remind members that pursuant to Rule 88 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly, no representative shall interrupt the voting except on a point of order on the actual conduct of the voting.
Any announcements, including those concerning withdrawals of candidatures, should therefore be made prior to the commencement of the voting process.
That is to say, before the announcements of the beginning of the voting process.
In addition, ballot papers will only be given to the delegate seated directly behind the country's nameplate.
We shall now begin the voting process.
Members are requested to remain seated and take their seat if you're still entering the room until all ballots have been collected.
Valot papers marked A, B, and C will now be distributed.
The voting has thus begun.
In accordance with Resolution 71 stroke 323 of September 8th, 2017, the names of the states that have been communicated to the Secretariat at least 48 hours prior to the election today have been printed on the ballot papers for each of the regional groups.
Also, additional blank lines corresponding to the number of vacant seats to be filled for each of the regional groups have been provided on the ballot papers for inscribing other names if desirable.
I request representatives to use only these ballot papers that have been distributed and to put an X in the boxes next to the names of the member states from the relevant region whom they wish to vote for and or write other eligible names on the blank lines.
If the box next to the name printed on the ballot paper is checked, the name of that state does not need to be repeated on the blank line.
The total number of checkboxes and or handwritten names should not exceed the number of vacant seats to be filled as indicated on the ballot paper.
A ballot paper will be declared invalid if it contains more names of eligible member states from the relevant region than the number of seats allocated to it.
Accordingly, for the ballot papers marked A, for the African and Asia Pacific states, the total number of checkboxes and handwritten names should not exceed two.
For the ballot papers marked B, for the Latin American and Caribbean states, the total number of checked boxes and handwritten names should not exceed one.
For the ballot papers marked C, for the Western European and other states, the total number of checked boxes and handwritten names should not exceed two.
A ballot paper will be declared invalid if none of the names of the member states on the ballot for which votes were cast belong to the relevant region.
If a ballot paper for region contains one of the following, the ballot remains valid, but the vote for these member states will not be counted.
Member states that do not belong to the region concerned or member states that are currently members of the council, if a ballot paper contains any notation or other than votes in favor of eligible candidates, those notions will be disregarded.
I now invite everybody again to take his or her seat, and I invite the representatives of the following states to serve as tellers and to accompany the conference officers as they collect the ballot papers, Argentina, Dibouti, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, and Palau.
I now invite the representative I thank the representative for serving.
Please now proceed to collect the ballot papers.
I May I request delegations who may not have voted to do so now by approaching the front of the hall to cast their votes.
And since when we close it, we will not go back.
So please ensure that every delegation has voted now.
We don't have any signals.
Therefore, the voting is now closed.
No more ballot papers will be accepted.
The meeting is suspended for 50 minutes, so we will be back at 10 minutes after 11:00 A.M.
Please take your seats.
Also there on the right hand in the corridor, could you please take seats or leave the space there? These are exits.
The plenary meeting is resumed.
The result of the voting is as follows.
Group A, African and Asia Pacific states, two seats.
Number of ballot papers, 191.
Number of invalid ballots, one.
Number of valid ballots, 190.
Abstentions, zero.
Number of members present and voting, 190.
Required two thirds majority, 127.
Zimbabwe, 182.
Kyrgyzstan 10005.
Philippines 85.
Make sure.
Group B, Latin American and Caribbean states, one seat.
Number of ballot papers, 191, number of invalid ballots, zero, number of valid ballots, 191.
Abstentions, nine.
Number of members present and voting, 182, required two thirds majority, 122.
Number of votes obtained, Trinidad and Tobago, 181.
Guyana, one.
Group C, Western European and other states, two seats.
Number of ballot papers, 191.
Number of invalid ballots, zero.
Number of valid ballots, 191.
Abstentions, one.
Number of members present and voting, 190.
Required two thirds majority, 127.
Number of votes obtained, Portugal, 134.
Austria 131.
Germany, 104.
If I please can get your attention.
Having obtained the required two thirds majority and the largest number of votes, Austria, Portugal, Trinidad, and Tobago, and Zimbabwe elected members of the Security Council for a two year term, beginning on January 1st, 2027.
There still remain one seat to be filled from among the African and Asia Pacific states.
We shall therefore proceed to the first restricted ballot.
In accordance with Rule 94 of the rules of procedure, this second round of balloting shall be restricted to the two states from among the Asia Pacific states which were not elected but obtained the largest number of votes in the previous ballot, namely Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines.
Before we begin the voting process, I should like to remind members that pursuant to Rule 88 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly, no representative shall interrupt the voting except on a point of order on the actual conduct of the voting.
Any announcements, including those concerning withdrawals and candidatures, should therefore be made prior to the commencement of the voting process.
That is to say, before the announcement of the beginning of the voting process.
In addition, ballot papers will only be given to the delegate seated directly behind the country's nameplate.
As before and as I totally understand the joy by those who have been elected.
But the congratulations will follow later because we are still in the middle of the voting process and with due respect to the group which hasn't finalized the voting process, I would really like to ask now everybody to return to the seat or celebrate outside because we shall now begin the voting process.
Again, members are requested to remain seated until all ballots have been collected.
Ballot papers will now be distributed and the voting has thus begun.
I request representatives to use only the ballot paper that has been distributed to put an X in the box next to the name of the member state from the relevant region whom they wish to vote for.
For the ballot paper, the total number of check boxes should not exceed one.
If a ballot paper contains any notation other than votes in favor of eligible candidates, those notation will be disregarded.
I invite the representatives of the following states to serve as tellers and Campania, the conference officers as they collect the ballot papers, Argentina, Dibouti, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, and Palau.
Please proceed to collect the ballot papers.
May I request delegations who may not have voted to do so now by approaching the front of the hall to cast their vote.
I will repeat as people are still moving and we cannot go back.
May I request delegation who may not have voted to do so now by approaching the front of the hall to cast their votes.
The voting is now closed.
No more ballot papers will be accepted.
I suspend the meeting this time for 20 minutes back at 12:00.
Please take your seats.
The plenary meeting is resumed.
The result of the voting is as follows.
Africa and Asia Pacific states, one seat.
Number of ballot papers, 191.
Number of invalid ballots, zero.
Number of valid ballots, 191, abstentions, zero.
Number of members present and voting, 191.
Required two thirds majority, 128.
Number of votes obtained, Kyrgyzstan, 110.
Philippines, 81.
There still remains one seat to be filled from among the African and Asia Pacific States.
We shall therefore proceed to the second restricted ballot.
If we shall therefore proceed to the second restricted ballot.
In accordance with Rule 94 of the rules of procedure, this third round of balloting shall be restricted to the two states from among the African and Asia Pacific states which were not elected but obtained the largest number of votes in the previous ballot, namely Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines.
Before we begin the voting process, I should like to remind members that pursuant to Rule 88 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly, no representative shall interrupt the voting except on a point of order on the actual conduct of the voting.
Any announcements including those concerning withdrawals of candidature should therefore be made prior to the commencement of the voting process, that is to say, before the announcements of the beginning of the voting process.
In addition, ballot papers will only be given to the delegated seated directly behind the country's nameplate.
We shall now begin the voting process.
Members are requested to remain seated until all ballots have been collected.
Valot papers will now be distributed.
The voting has thus begun.
I request representatives to use only the ballot paper that has been distributed and to put an X in the box next to the name of the member state from the relevant region whom they wish to vote for.
For the ballot paper, the total number of check boxes should not exceed one.
If a ballot paper contains any notation other than votes in favor of eligible candidates, those notations will be disregarded.
I invite I I invite the representatives of the following states to serve as tellers and to accompany the conference offices as they collect the ballot papers, Argentina, Dibouti, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, and Palau.
Please proceed to collect the ballot papers.
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May I request delegations who may not have voted to do so now by approaching the front of the hall to cast their votes.
The voting is now closed.
No more ballot papers will be accepted.
I suspend the meeting for 20 minutes, so 12 35.
The plenary meeting is resumed.
The result of the voting is as follows.
African and Asia Pacific states, one seat, number of ballot papers, 191.
Number of invalid ballots, zero.
Number of ballot ballots, 191.
Abstentions, zero.
Number of members present and voting, 191.
Required two thirds majority, 128.
Number of votes obtained, Kyrgyzistan, 123.
Philippines, 68.
As Mamlnk shows already, there still remains one seat to be filled from among the African and Asia Pacific states.
We shall therefore proceed to the third restricted ballot in accordance with Rule 94 of the rules of procedure.
This fourth round of balloting shall be restricted to the two states from among the African and Asia Pacific states, which were not elected but obtained the largest number of votes in the previous ballot, namely Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines.
Before we begin the voting process, I should like to remind members that pursuant to Rule 88 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly, no representative shall interrupt the voting except on the point of order on the actual conduct of the voting.
Any announcements, including those concerning withdrawals of candidatures, should therefore be made prior to the commencement of the voting process.
That is to say, before the announcement of the beginning of the voting process.
In addition, ballot papers will only be given to the delegate seated directly behind the country's nameplate.
We shall now begin the voting process.
Members are requested to remain seated until all ballots have been collected.
Ballot papers will now be distributed.
The voting has thus begun.
I request representatives to use only the ballot paper that has been distributed and to put an X in the box next to the name of the member state from the relevant region whom they wish to vote for.
For the ballot paper, the total number of check boxes should not exceed one.
If a ballot paper contains any notation other than votes in favor of lieral candidates, those notations will be disregarded.
I invite the representatives of the following states to serve as sellers and to accompany the conference officers as they collect the ballot papers, Argentina, Dibbouti, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, and Palau.
Please proceed to collect the ballot papers.
May AS delegations, who May I request delegations who may not have voted to do so now by approaching the front of the hall to cast their votes.
I don't see anybody else.
The voting is now closed.
No more ballot papers will be accepted.
I suspend the meeting for 20 minutes or maybe 2 minutes less that we are ready to be here at 1:00 P.M.
Thank you for being back on time.
Please take your seats.
The panel meeting is resumed.
If everybody could take their seats, please.
The result of the voting is as follows.
African and Asia Pacific states, one seat.
Number of ballot papers, 191, number of invalid ballots, zero.
Number of valid ballots, 191, abstentions, zero.
Number of members present and voting, 191.
Required two thirds majority, 128.
Number of votes obtained, Kyrgyzstan, 142, Philippines 49.
Having obtained the required two thirds majority and the largest number of votes, Kyrgyzstan is elected as a member of the Security Council for a two year term beginning on January 1st, 2027.
I congratulate the states which have been elected members of the Security Council today, and I thank the tellers for their assistance in this election.
The Assembly has thus concluded its consideration of sub item A of the agenda item 113.
Understanding the congratulations also for the last seat for the Security Council.
We have to proceed before finalizing.
Before adjourning.
I wish to inform members that the following representatives have been elected chairs of the main committees of the Assembly at its 81st session and are accordingly members of the General Committee for that session.
First Committee, His Excellency Locke Bahadur Chapa, Nepal.
Special Political and Decolonization Committee, Force Committee, His Excellency CoSec Senegal.
Second committee, Her Excellency Fula Cana, Albania.
Third committee, His Excellency, James Martin Larson, Australia.
Fifth committee, His Excellency Ibragm Florenzo Jimon, Nigeria.
Sixth Committee, Her Excellency, Trisha Simantii Pursuit.
I congratulate the chairs of these main committees at the 81st session on their election.
The meeting is adjourned.
I wish you all a good day and thank you for today's participation.
Thank you.