UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, Chad, Nigeria, Chile and Lithuania were elected by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve a two-year term on the U.N. 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.
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