Libya among five elected to U.N. Security Council
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By Patrick WorsnipUNITED NATIONS  - Libya, Vietnam, Croatia, Costa Rica and Burkina Faso were elected to nonpermanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008-09 on Tuesday.In the voting for African and Asian seats, Libya, Vietnam and Burkina Faso were unopposed from the start and obtained the required two-thirds majority of votes in favor on the first ballot by the 192-member U.N. General Assembly.In contested races for single seats for Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, Croatia and Costa Rica squared off against the Czech Republic and the Dominican Republic respectively. But they were voted in after their rivals faded in the second ballot and pulled out. Read more
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Japan, Argentina, Denmark, Greece and Tanzania were on Friday elected by the UN General Assembly as non-permanent members of the Security Council or a two-year term beginning on January 1 next.
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Corrects to make clear that U.N. Security Council did not meet on Thursday, paragraph 5
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Egypt staked a claim to a permanent seat  on the U.N. Security Council Saturday, saying the powerful body  should better represent all the world's civilizations and  cultures.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize an African Union force to help stabilize Somalia over the next six months, setting the stage for U.N. peacekeepers to take over the long-term job of bringing peace to the Horn of Africa nation.
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The U.N. Security Council  endorsed 40 pages of plans on Friday for a Darfur peacekeeping  force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect  civilians and use force to deter violence.
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Japan, Brazil, Germany and India have formed a lobbying group to help all four countries obtain permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
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Britain, France and the US have agreed to a 5,900 increase in the strength of the UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fewer than half the reinforcements requested by the secretary general, Kofi Annan.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 2 -- The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members on Monday unanimously backed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon's bid to become the United Nations' next secretary general, making it likely he will be endorsed next week by the 15-nation council as the world's top...
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Japan has won a two-year term on the UN Security Council, joining Argentina, Denmark, Greece and Tanzania. On Friday, the world body&#39;s General Assembly elected unopposed the
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report circulated Monday that Libya appears to have been telling the truth in its declarations on the covert atomic weapons program that it agreed in December to abandon.
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Five U.N. staff were still  missing after a bombing in Algeria in which 11 other U.N.  employees died, the world body said on Thursday.
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VIENNA, Austria  - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said  in a confidential report circulated Monday that Libya appears  to have been telling the truth in its declarations on the  covert atomic weapons program that it agreed to abandon last  year.
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Libya took over the rotating  presidency of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday in a major  step back to global respectability after decades as a pariah of  the West.
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The U.N. Security Council voted late Wednesday to extend the authorization of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan ahead of a high-level meeting Sunday that will focus on promoting national reconciliation in the country.
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Senior envoys to the 25-nation bloc agreed the move at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. The. decision, the latest step in Libya&#39;s improving relations with the West, will
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SIRTE, Libya, Oct 18, 2004 (SUNA) -- The summit of the five presidents which took place in the Libyan town of Sirte has decided to follow up the question of Darfur and to hold regular meetings between the leaders of the five countries.