The Kazakh Foreign Ministry says in a statement the vote took place at the UN General Assembly on November 2.
Kazakhstan will represent Central Asia in the 54-member UN body for the next three years. ECOSOC is the UN's central forum for discussing international economic and social issues.
(mfa.kz)
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