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Republic of Korea Elected Non-Permanent Member of Security Council for 2024 - 2025

6 June 2023

Joonkook Hwang, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, briefs reporters after Republic of Korea today was elected non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2024 – 2025.

The General Assembly today elected five new non-permanent members of the Security Council to serve for the period of 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2025. The Assembly elected Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia. Six member states were running for the five available seats, with Belarus and Slovenia running for one available seat in the Eastern European Group. All have served on the Council previously: Algeria three times, Guyana and the Republic of Korea twice, and Sierra Leone and Slovenia once.

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