{"id":1139,"date":"2020-02-12T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2020-02-12T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T08:20:11","slug":"norways-fight-for-security-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s fight for Security Council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-12-at-08.13.33-1-1024x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1142\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-12-at-08.13.33-1-1024x533.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-12-at-08.13.33-1-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-12-at-08.13.33-1-768x400.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot-2020-02-12-at-08.13.33-1.jpg 1898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Source: UN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway is racing to secure enough votes from countries around the world to get&nbsp;a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. Prime Minister Erna Solberg just attended a meeting of the African Union, to curry favour from a continent where Norway, in theory, could secure 54 of the 129 votes needed to beat tough competitor Canada to secure the coveted position. I spoke to The Minute on Monocle 24 about why this is so important to the small Scandinavian nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/759237184&amp;color=%23e4c004&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway is racing to secure enough votes from countries around the world to get&nbsp;a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. Prime Minister Erna Solberg just attended a meeting of the African Union, to curry favour from a continent where Norway, in theory, could secure 54 of the 129 votes needed to beat tough competitor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}