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Mali elected to Security Council

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    The UN General Assembly Thursday elected Mali aand four other countries - Bangladesh, Jamaica, Tunisia and Ukraine - to two-year terms as non-permanent members of the Security Council starting 1 January 2000.

    They will fill vacancies left by The Gambia, Bahrain, Brazil, Gabon and Slovenia when their terms expire on 31 December.

    The other countries represented on the 15-nation Council are permanent members China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States, and Argentina, Canada, Malaysia, Namibia and the Netherlands.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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