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The head of the country's delegation is known as the president of the United Nations Security Council. The presidency has rotated every month since its establishment in 1946, [ 1 ] and the president serves to coordinate actions of the council, decide policy disputes, and sometimes functions as a diplomat or intermediary between conflicting groups.
This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations.
US President Barack Obama chairs a United Nations Security Council meeting. The meeting room exhibits Untitled (Mural for Peace), the United Nations Security Council mural by Per Krohg (1952). Unlike the General Assembly, the Security Council is not bound to sessions. Each Security Council member must have a representative available at UN ...
After decades of seeking a bigger voice in the United Nations ' most powerful body, Africa "cannot wait any longer,” Sierra Leone's president told the Security Council on Monday. Chairing a ...
[7] [8] She is the first woman to lead all women members Second Committee and the first woman to hold the position of Malta Permanent Representative to the UN. She served as the President of the United Nations Security Council in February 2023 and in April 2024. [9]
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, drawing criticism of the Biden administration for once again blocking international action aimed ...
Ukraine’s president accused Russia of waging “a criminal and unprovoked aggression” that undermines all norms of war and the U.N. charter Wednesday at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council ...
He subsequently served as the President of the United Nations Security Council in April 2019 and took up the post again in July 2020 when Germany assumed the Presidency once more. [16] During his time as chair of the Security Council, Heusgen notably led negotiations in July 2020 on extending aid deliveries to Syria for one year.