NIGERIA ELECTED TO JOIN UN SECURITY COUNCIL

Nigeria joins Saudi Arabia, Chad, Lithuania and Chile.They were elected by the 193 member UN General Assembly today to serve a two year term on the UN security council.They will replace Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo on the 15-member Security Council on January 1, 2014. All five countries were elected unopposed, but they still needed approval from two-thirds of the General Assembly to secure their seats.There are five veto-holding permanent members of the council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - and 10 temporary members without veto power.