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United States: 1945: 2024: WEOG: Permanent member 53 China: 1971: 2024: Asia-Pacific: Permanent member 46 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: 1945: 1991: E. European: Former permanent member, replaced by the Russian Federation: 33 Russia: 1991: 2024: E. European: Permanent member 26 Republic of China: 1945: 1971: Asian: Former permanent member ...
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. [1] [2] The permanent members were all Allies in World War II ...
Nigeria did not become independent from the United Kingdom until 1960, while the United Nations had already been established by the Declaration by United Nations in 1942. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is the permanent representative of Nigeria. [1] In 2013, Nigeria contributed the fifth largest number of peacekeepers to United Nations peacekeeping ...
The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts for General Assembly committees. Now this grouping has taken on a much more expansive and official ...
Widely recognized UN member state and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Russia was a federation of 22 republics, 46 oblasts, 9 krais, 3 federal cities, 1 autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okrugs.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations: 164. Sri Lanka: Peter Mohan Maithri Pieris [4] 13 January 2021: Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations: 165. Sudan: Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed: 23 May 2023: Permanent Representative of Sudan the United Nations: 166. Suriname: Sunil Algram Sitaldin: 4 January ...
In 1967, the regions were replaced by 12 states by military decree. From 1967 to 1970 the Eastern Region attempted to secede, as a nation called Biafra during the Nigerian civil war. The Mid-Western Region was renamed to the State of Bendel during this period. 1976–1987: In 1976, seven new states were created, making 19 altogether. [5] 1987 ...