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UN Security Council

The Security Council has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security. Organized to function continuously, a representative of each of its members must be present at all times at United Nations Headquarters. The Council consists of 15 members: five permanent members with veto power (China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America) and ten non-permanent members (Membership: Angola (2016), Chad (2015), Chile (2015), Jordan (2015), Lithuania (2015), Malaysia (2016), New Zealand (2016), Nigeria (2015), Spain (2016), Venezuela (Bolivian Republic of) (2016)) five of which are elected each year by the General Assembly for a two-year term.  Website: www.un.org/en/sc/
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Security Council resolution 2240 (2015) [on migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the Libyan territory and off the coast of Libya]

14 October 2015 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

International migration and development : report of the Secretary-General

25 July 2013 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

5 May 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation concerning Western Sahara

13 April 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Accordance with Paragraph 5 of Security Council Resolution 1616 (2005)

27 January 2006 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

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