The General Assembly elected the Turkish diplomat to its presidency and admitted Kenya to the Security Council.
The United Nations General Assembly elected Ambassador Volkan Bozkir of Turkey to the presidency of its seventy-fifth session. It also completed the election of non-permanent members of the Security Council, electing Kenya by 129 votes, out of a two-thirds majority of 128. The other candidate for the African Group, Djibouti, received just 62 votes.
From January 1, 2021, Kenya will join Norway, Ireland, India and Mexico, elected yesterday, for a two-year term, replacing South Africa, Germany, Belgium and the Dominican Republic. The other five non-permanent members of the Security Council whose terms of office do not expire until next year are Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
Eighteen states were elected to join the 36 other members of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). They are Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, for Africa; Indonesia, Japan and the Solomon Islands, for Asia-Pacific; Bulgaria, for Eastern Europe; Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico, for Latin America and the Caribbean; and Austria, France, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom, for Western Europe and other States.