Rwanda?s win of a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council has met with some controversy.
The country along with Argentina and Australia received enough votes from among the 193 member states to secure a non-permanent seat.
Each year the 15-member council, the UN?s most powerful committee, renews five of its 10 non-permanent seats, assigning them on a regional basis.
Each needed at least 129 votes and Rwanda received 148, while Australia took 140 and Argentina 182.
However, Rwanda won the seat despite a leaked UN report accusing the country of fuelling a rebellion in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rwanda?s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo has denied the accusations made in the UN report and thanked the Assembly for voting it onto the council for the first time since the genocide in the country.
Mushikiwabo said: ?The contrast could not be sharper between that previous tenure ? when a genocidal government occupied a prized? Security Council seat as its agents waged genocide back home ? and the Rwanda of today: a nation of peace, unity, progess and optimism."
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The two remaining seats were being fought between the Asia-Pacific region, where it was between South Korea, Bhutan and Cambodia, while for the so-called Western European and Others Group, Finland and Luxembourg were vying for the last seat.
The five holders of new seats take them up in January for a two-year stint. The permanent members, wielding veto power, are the United States, China, France, Britain and Russia.
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