Turkey to chair UN Security Council in June 2010
07.01.2010 18:15 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In June 2010, Turkey will take over chairmanship of
UN Security Council, according to Baki Ilkin, the country’s permanent
representative in United Nations.
In that period, all Security Council meeting will be presided over by
Mr. Ilkin, however, high level meetings will be chaired by the
country’s Foreign Minister, The Journal of Turkish Weekly reported.
Chairmanship in UN Security Council is taken over by 20 member states
in alphabetic order. Turkey became the Council’s non-permanent member
in 2009. Its membership term expires in 2010.
The United Nations Security Council is the organization’s permanent
body which has primary responsibility, under UN Charter (Article 24),
for the maintenance of international peace and security.
It has 5 permanent members (China, France. Great Britain, Russia and
United States) and 15 non-permanent members (Austria, Belgium, Burkina
Faso, Costa-Rica, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lybia, Mexico,
Panama, South African Republic, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam).