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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: Bolivia (2018), Egypt (2017), Ethiopia (2018), Italy (2018), Japan (2017), Kazakhstan (2018), Senegal (2017), Sweden (2018), Ukraine (2017), Uruguay (2017)) 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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Report of the Secretary-General on developments in Guinea-Bissau and on the activities of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in that country

10 June 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Special report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia

10 June 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

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

1 June 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Central African Republic

3 February 2009 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) [on renewal of measures on arms embargo against all non-governmental entities and individuals operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo]

22 December 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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

10 November 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Eighteenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire

13 October 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Seventeenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia

15 August 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Sixteenth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire

15 April 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Security Council resolution 1807 (2008) [on renewal of measures on arms embargo against all non-governmental entities and individuals operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo]

31 March 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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