{"id":52475,"date":"2025-01-03T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/five-countries-assume-responsibilities-as-non-permanent-members-of-the-un\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:37:51","slug":"five-countries-assume-responsibilities-as-non-permanent-members-of-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/five-countries-assume-responsibilities-as-non-permanent-members-of-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Five countries assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their two-year term officially started on Jan. 1. Thursday is the first working day of the council for 2025 after the Christmas and New Year break.<\/p>\n<p>The five countries replaced Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>A flag installation ceremony was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York to mark the start of their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh UN ambassador Kairat Umarov, who presided over the ceremony, congratulated the five new council members and wished them success in their two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The flag installation ceremony for new Security Council members was initiated by Kazakhstan in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian UN ambassador Amar Bendjama, in his capacity as president of the Security Council for the month of January, thanked the outgoing members and welcomed the newcomers.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it is an &#8220;immense privilege&#8221; as well as &#8220;a huge responsibility&#8221; to serve in the Security Council, calling on all council members to work tirelessly and effectively to address the challenges facing the world &#8220;and uphold the values of multilateralism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The permanent representatives of the five new members made short speeches before they installed their respective national flags outside the Security Council Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-member Security Council has five permanent members &#8212; Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the UN General Assembly. Five non-permanent members are replaced every year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-79757\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/as-24.jpg\" alt=\"A flag installation ceremony was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York to mark the start of the new members&#039; responsibilities.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia on Thursday began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000079756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000079756,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-3.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000079756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}