Last Updated: Friday, 20 January 2017, 14:55 GMT

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), Egypt (2017), Japan (2017), Malaysia (2016), New Zealand (2016), Senegal (2017), Spain (2016), Ukraine (2017), Uruguay (2017), 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/
Filter:
Showing 51-60 of 160 results
Resolution 2191 (2014) [on the humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and the establishment of a monitoring mechanism]

17 December 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in South Sudan

11 December 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict : Conclusions on children and armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic

26 November 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on South Sudan

18 November 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on South Sudan

18 November 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

25 September 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014) and 2165 (2014)

21 August 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2139 (2014)

23 April 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

5 March 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Security Council resolution 2140 (2014) [on the Middle East]

26 February 2014 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Search Refworld