Ukraine hopes for positive voting on Oct 15 to get non-permanent seat in UN Security Council – Klimkin

03:19, 29.09.2015 1 min read

Ukraine hopes for the positive outcome of the voting at the United Nations to elect it as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

"On October 15, the voting will take place. That's why we'll be here, the whole team we'll work starting from October 10," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine in New York on Monday.

He added that it is necessary 2/3 of votes of the members of the UN General Assembly for such a decision to be adopted.

Besides, Klimkin has stressed that he is optimistic towards this issue.