Four countries were elected to two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday in the first major vote held at the world body amid the coronavirus pandemic.
India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway will join the council on January 1 for the rotating term.
But a decision on who will occupy a seat representing Africa will go to a second round of voting Thursday, as neither of the contenders, Kenya and Djibouti, captured the necessary two-thirds majority.
With a two-thirds majority of 128 votes needed, Ireland and Norway both squeaked by with 128 and 130 votes respectively.
Kenya received 113 votes, Djibouti 78 – neither sufficient to achieve the two-thirds majority of 128.
