Elections for vacant seat on UN Security Council suspended

The elections for the remaining vacant seat on UN Security Council has been postponed till next week so as to encourage the Latin nations to seek solution for the current impasse, the spokesperson for the UN General Assembly announced Wednesday.

Upon the request of Guatemala and Venezuela, the General Assembly decided to suspend the voting scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, the spokesperson said, adding that the voting would resume next Tuesday Morning.

Foreign ministers of Guatemala and Venezuela, the two rival candidates in the contest for the seat being vacated by Argentina at the end of the year, met in New York Wednesday morning and were due to meet again later in the day to find a way out of the current impasse.

Ecuador's UN Ambassador Diego Cordovez, who hosted the talks at his mission, said the two foreign ministers are convinced they had to decide on another candidate soon.

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday remained deadlocked after total 47 rounds of voting in the contest to fill a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the Latin American and Caribbean region.

Source: Xinhua