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The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States.
Map showing the members of the United Nations Security Council as of 2025, with permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) in blue, and non-permanent members (Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia) in green.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation was recognized as the legal successor state of the Soviet Union and maintained the latter's position on the Security Council. [68] The five permanent members of the Security Council were the victorious powers in World War II [69] and have maintained the world's most ...
The United Nations Security Council veto power is the power of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to veto any decision other than a "procedural" decision. A permanent member's abstention or absence does not count as a veto. [1]
Article 23 [1] establishes the composition of the Security Council, with five permanent members (the Republic of China, (currently People's Republic of China), France, the Soviet Union (Now Russian Federation), the United Kingdom, and the United States) and 10 non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly. The non-permanent members ...
The Committee is also deploying in peacekeeping missions twice a year to provide the members of Security Council and the Secretariat with a military assessment of their performance. Since 2023, the Committee has developed a partnership with its African Union counterpart that is a subsidiary body of the AU Peace and Security Council.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday revived the Palestinian Authority's hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member. The U.S. is one of five permanent members who can veto any council action.
Other Security Council members objected, and the President of the Security Council (New Zealand) offered a compromise where all 18 applicants would be in one resolution, but each applicant would be voted on separately as though it were an amendment, followed by a larger vote on the whole resolution.