Pakistan, Morocco, Guatemala elected to U.N. council
Pakistan, Morocco and Guatemala were elected on Friday to the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for 2012 and 2013, Reuters reported.
Guatemala ran unopposed, but needed to secure a two-thirds majority in the 193-nation General Assembly. It won 191 votes. Pakistan scraped through in the first round of voting with the minimum required 129 votes while Morocco received 151 votes.
There will be a second round of voting for two more seats, one in Africa between Togo and Mauritania and one in Eastern Europe between Azerbaijan, Slovenia and Hungary.
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