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In this representation provided United Nations Photo, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, speaks during a emblem installation ceremonial for caller members of the United Nations Security Council, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, astatine U.N. headquarters. UAE, Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana were elected arsenic the 5 non-permanent subordinate nations to the Council for the word 2022-2023. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations Photo via AP)

CAMEROON – The U.N. Security Council got 5 caller members Tuesday, arsenic Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates formally took up the posts they won successful an predetermination successful June.

Ambassadors made little remarks, installed their countries' flags alongside those of different members extracurricular the assembly chambers, and posed for a radical photograph — wearing look masks and lasting apart, successful an acknowledgment of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The emblem ceremonial is a contented that Kazakhstan started erstwhile connected the assembly successful 2018.

The 15-member assembly is the U.N.’s astir almighty body. China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States are imperishable members, with veto power.

Other members are elected by the 193-member General Assembly for staggered, two-year presumption that are allocated by planetary regions.

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Estonia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam finished their presumption Friday.

Countries often run for seats for years. Winning gives them a accidental connected peacekeeping missions and the council's different approaches to struggle hotspots, positive a beardown dependable connected overarching issues of planetary bid and security.

Council members besides tin convene meetings connected information topics of peculiar involvement to them, and smaller countries get to stock a salient level with satellite powers.

Albania is joining for the archetypal time, portion Brazil is taking an 11th turn. Gabon and Ghana each person been connected the assembly 3 times earlier and the UAE once.

More than 50 of the U.N.'s 193 subordinate countries person ne'er been elected to the assembly since it formed successful 1946.

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