Poland wants seat on the UN Security Council – Ambassador

Coming off the heels of the recent UN summit on Climate Change in Marrakech (COP 22), Polish Ambassador to Morocco Marek Ziółkowski said that Poland is aiming to get a seat on the non-permanent security council at the United Nations. “The idea (of meeting other diplomats in Morocco) was to show that Poland wants to be a member of the council, wants the council to work more democratically, more transparently,” he said in an interview on Polish radio on Friday. The ambassador spoke with representatives from eight countries, including Fiji, Cape Verde and Antigua and Barbados, in order to lobby for Poland’s admission to the Council. He also indicated that it would be beneficial for Poland to host COP 24, the climate conference occurring in two years’ time, which it is trying to get. To be elected a non-permanent member of the 15-member Security Council, a country must win the votes of two-thirds of the states of the General Assembly. Usually, at least one member state is elected from eastern Europe.