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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.
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.
The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947 (PL 235 – 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 579; 50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.). Later in 1949, as part of the Reorganization Plan, the Council was placed in the Executive Office of the President.
At the UN's founding in 1945, the five permanent members of the Security Council were the Republic of China, France (represented by the Provisional Government of the French Republic), the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There have been two major seat changes since then.
Permanent Members Of the United Nations: 142. Romania: Cornel Feruță: 16 September 2022: Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations: 143. Russia: Vassily A. Nebenzia: 28 July 2017: Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations: 144. Rwanda: Ernest Rwamucyo: 7 December 2023: 145. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Mutryce ...
The Biden administration is calling for adding two permanent seats for African nations to the United Nations Security Council, and an elected seat for a small-island developing nation. U.S ...
After the General Assembly elected the non-permanent members of the Security Council on 12 January 1946, attention turned to the Secretary-Generalship. The British government favored U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but Eisenhower turned down the nomination.
The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).. The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal bodies (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the United Nations Secretariat), [1 ...