{"id":21285,"date":"2023-06-01T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/council.itu.int\/?page_id=21285"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:08:08","slug":"council-member-states","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/about\/council-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Member States"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section>\n    <div class=\"text-section\">\n        <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n                                        <div class=\"text-section-left\" data-span=\"8\">\n                        <p>\n        The Member States of the Council are elected by the Plenipotentiary Conference, ensuring an equitable distribution of Council seats among all the regions of the world.    <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"text-section-right data-span-override\" data-span=\"4\">\n            <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n    <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n        <div data-span=\"12\">\n                                <h3 class=\"h5\">\n        Council Member States (2023-2026)    <\/h3>\n                            \n<section class=\"wp-block-itu-simple-table block\"><div class=\"ituContainer grid\"><div data-span=\"8\"><div class=\"simple-table\"><table class=\"\"><thead><tr><th>Region <\/th><th>Member States<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>A (Americas) &#8211; 9 seats<\/td><td>Argentina,\u00a0Bahamas,\u00a0Brazil, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador,\u00a0Mexico, Paraguay,\u00a0United States<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>B (Western Europe) &#8211; 8 seats<\/td><td>France, Germany,\u00a0Italy,\u00a0Spain, Sweden,\u00a0Switzerland, T\u00fcrkiye, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>C (Eastern Europe and Northern Asia) &#8211; 5 seats<\/td><td>Azerbaijan, Bulgaria,\u00a0Czech Republic,\u00a0Poland, Romania<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>D (Africa) &#8211; 13 seats<\/td><td>Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius,\u00a0Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>E (Asia and Australasia) &#8211; 13 seats<\/td><td>Australia, Bahrain,\u00a0China, India, Indonesia,\u00a0\u200b\u200bJapan, Korea (Republic of), Kuwait, Malaysia,\u00a0Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates\u200b\u200b<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><div data-span=\"4\"><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":21270,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21285\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.itu.int\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}