MAE: Romania continues to promote candidacy for UN Security Council non-permanent member

Romania will continue to promote its candidacy for a non-permanent member of the United Nations' Security Council, "an important external policy goal", the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informs in a release.

"A strong support on the political class's behalf and the Romanian society's as a whole, of the media included, enhances the chances of success," the MAE release adds.

The above-mentioned specification is sent as a result of the information surfaced in the media according to which Romania would have lost the seat of a non-permanent member in the UN Security Council in favor of Estonia.

Three months ago, Dancila government announced its intention to move the headquarters of the Embassy of Romania from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which caused discontent with the Arab states in the region.

On June 19, President Klaus Iohanis said that a government decision to move Romania's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would cancel any chance for Romania to be voted a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

MAE recalls that Romania has applied in 2006 for a non-permanent member to the UN Security Council for the 2020 - 2021 period, on the spot allocated to the East-European Group our country is a party. Elections for this mandate are due within the General Assembly of the United Nations in June 2019.

According to the UN Charter, Chapter IV, Art. 18, the mandate of a non-permanent member in the Security Council could be only grabbed by vote within the General Assembly, with support of two-thirds of the UN member states that currently count for 193, the MAE release concludes.

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