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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Switzerland's President Ignazio Cassi called the election "a very important day" for the country, coming 20 years after it joined the United Nations.
59% :Japan's vice foreign minister, Odawara Kiyoshi, said his country will do its best "to make this United Nations working as a whole."
53% : UNITED NATIONS (AP) --
49% : The 10 non-permanent seats on the council are allotted to regional groups, who usually select candidates, but sometimes cannot agree on an uncontested slate.-- -- --Follow AP's coverage of the United Nations at https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations
32% : But many other conflicts are also on its agenda from Syria and Yemen to Mali and Myanmar as well as international security issues from the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and Iran, and attacks by extremist groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida.

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