German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has expressed optimism about Germany\u2019s chances of securing a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, despite stiff competition from Austria and Portugal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn campaigning for a two-year term on the most powerful UN body, I have received a great deal of support for the fact that Germany is a strong and audible voice for peace and security,\u201d the country’s top diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n
The new Security Council members will be elected by the General Assembly of the 193 member states on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Germany is standing in the \u201cWestern Europe and Others\u201d regional group for the 2027\u20132028 term for one of the two allocated seats.<\/p>\n
Berlin traditionally stands for one of the non-permanent seats every eight years and has already been represented on the Security Council six times, most recently in 2019-2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now entering the home stretch of the election campaign. That is why we will once again mobilize all our resources,\u201d Wadephul asserted. \u201cWhen global crises are discussed, Germany wants to bring its influence to bear. That is appropriate for the world\u2019s third-largest economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Security Council comprises 15 of the 193 UN member states. Five nuclear powers and victorious nations of World War II are permanent members and hold veto power: the US, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and France.<\/p>\n
Other states take turns occupying the remaining 10 seats for two-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has expressed optimism about Germany\u2019s chances of securing a non-permanent seat on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27176,27177,5,468,8008],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-angelholm-helsingborg-airport","tag-foreign-minister","tag-germany","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-security-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}