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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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Twenty-second semi-annual report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004)

7 October 2015 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Security Council resolution 2209 (2015) [on the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic]

6 March 2015 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Eighteenth semi-annual report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004)

16 October 2013 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Annual Reports

Security Council resolution 2118 (2013) [on the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic]

27 September 2013 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Security Council Requires Destruction of Syria's Chemical Weapons, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2118 (2013)

27 September 2013 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Speeches/Statements

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