Bosnia and Herzegovina became a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the first time six years ago

Six years ago, BiH was admitted as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, writes the BiH news agency Patria.

With the new year 2010, five countries became new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. These were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Lebanon, Gabon, and Nigeria.

The five new members who signed a two-year mandate that year replaced countries from their respective UN system geographical groups. They were replaced by Croatia from the Eastern European group, Costa Rica from the Latin American and Caribbean group, and Vietnam from the Asian group, as well as Libya and Burkina Faso from the African group.

The Security Council is the most important body of the United Nations to which member states of the organization entrust the task of maintaining international peace and security. The Council consists of 15 UN member states; five permanent (United States of America, China, France, Great Britain, and Russia) and ten non-permanent members elected for two years.

BiH had never been a member of the Security Council before. Among the former Yugoslav republics, only Slovenia and Croatia had been members of the Security Council until then. Yugoslavia, for example, held this mandate four times, the last time in the period of 1988 and 1989, writes Patria.