Nigeria Assumes Presidency Of United Nations Security Council For 4th Time In 5 Years ~ BimzTheory

Nigeria Assumes Presidency Of United Nations Security Council For 4th Time In 5 Years

Nigeria has again assumed the one-month rotational Presidency of the United Nations Security Council as Joy Ogwu, Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the UNtakes over from Gerard van Bohemen, the Permanent Representative of New Zealand, who held the Presidency for the month of July, 2015.

In a statement yesterday, the spokesperson to Mrs Ogwu, Tope Adeleye Elias-Fatile, said this will be the first time in the history of the UN that an elected member of the Security Council would assume presidency of the Council for the 4th time in two separate tenures within 5 years.

According to the statement, this is the fifth time since independence that Nigeria has been elected to serve on this most powerful decision-making organ of the UN charged with the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security as Nigeria previously served on the Council from 1966 – 1967, 1978 – 1979, 1994 – 1995 and 2011 – 2012.