UN Security Council Non-Permanent Seats

 

The five non-permanent seats were given to Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain, the latter two beating Turkey to represent the West.
 

The new members of the Security Council will begin their two-year appointment on 1 January 2015

The five new members each received over two-thirds of the votes cast in a secret ballot.

They will join five other non-permanent members: Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania and Nigeria.

Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, South Korea and Rwanda will step down at the end of the year to make way for the newly-elected members.