AA / Accra, Ghana / Enoch Fiifi Forson
Ghana has joined the United Nations Security Council, thus acknowledging the return of the West African country to the UN body, 15 after its last election as a non-permanent member.
This return was marked on January 4 by a raising of the colors (flag) ceremony in which other new members participated, including Albania, Brazil, Gabon and the United Arab Emirates.
Ghana will sit on the board from January 1, 2022 until the end of December 2023.
This will be the third time that Ghana has occupied a non-permanent seat on the Council, the body that directs the UN peace efforts to ensure the security of member countries.
Ghana had the opportunity to serve on the Council for the first time in the 1960s and then for the period from January 2006 to December 2007.
During the ceremony, the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations, Ambassador Harold Agyeman, said: “Ghana will endeavor to work with other members of the Council to promote international peace and security, including through a effective peacekeeping, in order to achieve the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). “
Africa, he said, will be Ghana’s top priority.
The Council, composed of 15 members, is the most influential organ of the United Nations. It includes 10 seats for non-permanent members and five for permanent members, namely China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and United States, which have a veto right.
The other 10 members are elected by the General Assembly, which has 193 members, for a two-year term and are distributed by region of the world.
In June 2021, Ghana obtained 185 of the 190 votes cast in that vote.
* Translated from English by Mourad Belhaj
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