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Chile, Peru and Costa Rica join the Geneva based UN Human rights council
UN General Assembly President Joseph Deiss Chile, Peru and Costa Rica will be representing Latin America and the Caribbean in the UN Human Rights Council for the next three years, following a round of balloting among UN member states over the weekend.
Six countries that have never previously served on the Human Rights Council are among 15 new members of the Geneva-based body.
Austria, Benin, Botswana, the Republic of Congo, Costa Rica and Kuwait will make their debut on the Council next month, starting three-year terms on the 47-member panel that allots seats according to a formula based on world regions.
The other newly elected members – although they have previously completed stints since the Council was created in 2006 – are Burkina Faso, Chile, Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Italy, Peru, Philippines and Romania.
General Assembly President Joseph Deiss announced the results of the voting, which was conducted by secret ballot among Member States at UN Headquarters in New York.
Four countries were elected in the African category, four in the Asian States grouping and three from Latin America and the Caribbean, while two countries were chosen from Eastern Europe and two from the Western European and other States grouping.
In the Eastern European category, Georgia was unsuccessful, while in Latin America and the Caribbean, Nicaragua missed out on a seat.
Chile received 159 votes out of 191, followed by Costa Rica, 138 and Peru, 136 while Nicaragua was supported by 98 votes.
Members of the General Assembly elect the members who occupy the UN Human Rights Council forty-seven seats. The term of each seat is three years, and no member may occupy a seat for more than two consecutive terms. The seats are distributed among the UN’s regional groups as follows: 13 for Africa, 13 for Asia, six for Eastern Europe, eight for Latin America and the Caribbean, and seven for the Western European and Others Group.
Following the latest vote the eight Latam/Caribbean countries are Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay, whose three year term is up in 2012, Ecuador and Guatemala (2013) plus Chile, Peru and Costa Rica.
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