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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 the Sudan

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

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti

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

Statement by the President of the Security Council [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 5959th meeting, 19 Aug. 2008, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "The situation in Timor-Leste"]

19 August 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Presidential Statements

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

Security Council resolution 1829 (2008) [on the establishment of the United Nations Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)]

4 August 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (for the period from 8 January to 8 July 2008)

29 July 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 6 of resolution 1770 (2007)

28 July 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

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

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

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

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

Report of the Secretary-General on the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur

7 July 2008 | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Country Reports

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