{"id":13051,"date":"2016-07-02T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2016-07-02T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:57:11","slug":"new-non-permanent-members-security-council-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/new-non-permanent-members-security-council-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"New non-permanent members of the Security Council elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong> <strong>Recently the United Nations General Assembly elected which of the following group of countries as non permanent members?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) Ethiopia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ukraine<br \/>\n(b) Ethiopia, Sweden, Bolivia, Japan<br \/>\n(c) Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Sweden, Senegal<br \/>\n(d) Ethiopia, Bolivia, Sweden, Kazakhstan<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 28 June 2016 United Nations General Assembly elected Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan to serve on the world body\u2019s Security Council for a period of two years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italy and the Netherlands had been contending for the remaining seat, but the voting yielded no clear winner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly-elected countries will replace Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand, Angola and Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Security Council has 15 members, including five permanent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five permanent members, each with the power of veto, are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other current non-permanent members are Japan, Egypt, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=54350#.V3bxqfl97IV\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=54350#.V3bxqfl97IV<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKCN0ZF0HK\">http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKCN0ZF0HK<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2016-06\/29\/c_135474113.htm\">http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2016-06\/29\/c_135474113.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/12394\/2016\/06\/29\/3821s932426.htm\">http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/12394\/2016\/06\/29\/3821s932426.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the United Nations General Assembly elected which of the following group of countries as non permanent members? (a) Ethiopia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ukraine (b) Ethiopia, Sweden, Bolivia, Japan (c) Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Sweden, Senegal (d) Ethiopia, Bolivia, Sweden, Kazakhstan Ans: (d) Related facts: On 28 June 2016 United Nations General Assembly elected Sweden, Bolivia, Ethiopia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}