The 193-member UN General Assembly elected Saudi Arabia last month for a two-year council term from Jan. 1 but, in a surprise move, Riyadh declined the position a day after the vote in protest of the council's failure to end the Syria war and act on other Middle East issues.
Western diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday it appeared Jordan had agreed to replace Saudi Arabia on the council after dropping out of a race against Riyadh for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
Jordan's place on the Security Council still would need to be approved by two-thirds of the General Assembly. Saudi's official letter on Tuesday to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon allows for a new election to be called.
- "I wish to inform you that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has decided to advise you that Saudi Arabia will regrettably not be in position to assume its seat in the Security Council to which it was elected," Saudi Arabia's UN ambassador, Abdullah al-Mouallimi, wrote.
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ONU: la Jordanie élue membre non permanent du Conseil de sécurité...
ReplyDeleteL'Assemblée générale de l'ONU a élu vendredi la Jordanie membre permanent du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU pour 2014-2015 à la place de l'Arabie saoudite.
Les quatre autres membres non permanents du Conseil élus pour 2014-2015 sont le Chili, la Lituanie, le Nigéria et le Tchad.
L'Arabie saoudite, qui a été élue pour la première fois en tant que membre non permanent du Conseil le 17 octobre dernier, a refusé ce siège dès le lendemain pour protester contre l'inefficacité et "l'impuissance" du Conseil, en particulier face à la situation en Syrie. Début novembre, l'ambassadeur saoudien auprès de l'ONU Abdallah al-Mouallimi a réclamé le statut de membre permanent pour l'Arabie saoudite au sein du Conseil de sécurité.
http://fr.ria.ru/world/20131206/199961471.html
6/12/13
Jordan assumes UN Security Council chair....
DeleteThe U.N. General Assembly elected Amman in early December as a replacement for Saudi Arabia.
Jordan takes over the U.N. Security Council presidency on Wednesday, the first day of its two-year stint on a 15-nation body struggling to cope with conflicts in Syria,South Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere.
Jordan will join Chad, Chile, Lithuania and Nigeria on the council until Dec. 31, 2015. The U.N. General Assembly elected Amman in early December as a replacement for Saudi Arabia after Riyadh turned down the seat in protest at the council's failure to end the Syrian war and act on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other Middle East issues.
Although Jordan was a last-minute stand-in for the Saudi kingdom, Amman's U.N. ambassador, PrinceZeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, has a reputation at the United Nations for his outspoken stance on human rights issues, U.N. diplomats say.
In April Zeid helped organize a boycott of a General Assembly meeting on international justice organized by Vuk Jeremic, a Serbian politician who headed the U.N. General Assembly. The United States called it "inflammatory."
Several U.N. Security Council diplomats said Zeid may turn out to be an influential member of the most powerful U.N. body, even though Jordan, like the other temporary members, will not have the veto power wielded by the five permanent council nations - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
"Although Jordan got into the Security Council by default, Prince Zeid is one of the best-known ambassadors around the U.N. and a genuinely thoughtful critic of the organization," said Richard Gowan, an international relations expert at New York University. "He could prove to be a surprisingly weighty voice in council debates."
As president of the council for January, Zeid will organize briefings on the delayed destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and the escalating conflict in South Sudan, as well as the situation in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and Sudan's Western Darfur region.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=126049
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