UN to vote on Jordan's seat on Security Council on Dec. 6

The UN General Assembly is to vote on Dec. 6 over whether Jordan should fill a two-year term on the UN Security Council beginning Jan. 1, 2014, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The balloting is to fill the vacancy created when Saudi Arabia refused to take up the seat it was elected to by the Assembly on Oct. 17.

"A plenary meeting will be held on Friday, Dec. 6 ... in order to elect a non-permanent member of the Security Council," the daily official UN Journal said.

"The General Assembly will hold a plenary meeting at 10 a.m. on Dec. 6 to elect a non-permanent member of the Security Council," the deputy spokeswoman for the president of the General Assembly, Fanny Langella, told Xinhua

Saudi Arabia refused to take up the seat on Oct. 18, one day after it was elected by the UN General Assembly, saying the 15-member Security Council have "double standards" and failed to deal with the Syrian crisis and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

On Oct. 19,Jordan formally announced its bid for a two-year UN Security Council seat.