{"id":604838,"date":"2025-12-01T07:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604838\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:27:24","slug":"russia-fails-in-bid-to-return-to-imos-top-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604838\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fails in bid to return to IMO&#8217;s top table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMO-HQ-building-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t IMO<\/p>\n<p>Russia failed on Friday in its bid for reelection to Category (a) at the IMO Council. Member states held a secret ballot to elect nations to the International Maritime Organization\u2019s council, the UN body\u2019s executive organ responsible, under the assembly, for supervising the work of the organisation. The council is made up of 40 member states, elected by the assembly for two-year terms, split across Categories (a), (b) and (c) . Category (a) is the group reserved for the 10 states with the \u201clargest interest\u201d in providing shipping services.<\/p>\n<p>For 2024\u201325, Russia was unceremoniously voted out of Category (a) in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine \u2014 the first time in living memory it had been excluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moscow sought reelection last week. Awkwardly for Russia, however, the nation was reminded last week that it is behind in paying its IMO dues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine said last week Russia\u2019s candidacy was \u201cincompatible\u201d with maritime law.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019s own re-nomination generated diplomatic chatter, given President Trump\u2019s well-publicised hostility towards UN institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The newly elected council will meet for its 136th session on December 4 and will elect its chair and vice-chair for the next biennium.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMO Russia failed on Friday in its bid for reelection to Category (a) at the IMO Council. Member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-604838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115643132008888579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}