MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Argentina plans for the Security Council.

Argentina assured this week the “unanimous support” from the Latinamerican and Caribbean group for its election as a non permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in 2005.

Argentina's name will be proposed during this year's UN General Assembly next September, according to a release from the Argentine UN delegation in New York.

The Security Council has five permanent members, (US, UK, France, China and Russia), and 10 non permanent generally two for each region lasting two years.

Each year five seats are renewed following agreements inside each regional group.

Currently Latinamerica and the Caribbean is represented by Brazil, and Chile whose mandate ends in late 2004 and should be replaced by Argentina. The country sat in the Security Council in 1998/2000.

According to a recent agreement between presidents Kirchner and Lula da Silva, for the first time ever, an Argentine diplomat will be integrating the Brazilian delegation so as to follow the Security Council's agenda.

Latinamerican Security Council representatives, Chile and Mexico, underwent incredible pressure last year when they refused to accept a non-UN scenario for the Iraq crisis.