WORLD IN BRIEF : WORLDWIDE : Cuba May Be Elected to Security Council
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Cuba is expected to be elected to the U.N. Security Council for the first time since before Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. Cuba will join Romania, South Yemen, Ivory Coast and Zaire for two-year terms beginning Jan. 1. 1990. The five permanent members of the Security Council, each with the power of veto, are the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, China and France. Cuba served two terms on the Security Council in the early days of the United Nations--in 1949-50 and in 1956-57.
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