UN Security Council bid falls short
After more than a year of bitter campaigning, Cambodia saw its efforts to win one of five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council fall flat early this morning after the vote went to South Korea. In an election held at the UN General Assembly in New York, that stretched just past midnight local time and went into a second round of voting, Cambodia garnered just 43 votes—falling far short of the necessary two-thirds majority needed for the win. ... The loss comes as a blow to the Kingdom, which announced its candidacy for the seat in January 2011 and has heavily ramped up campaigning over the course of the past year. ... All nine ASEAN member states agreed to support the bid, and government officials had, months earlier, claimed they'd received confirmed support from more than 100 countries. ...
