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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.
India has been a non permanent member of the UN Security Council for eight terms (a total of ongoing 16 years), with the most recent being the 2021–22 term. India is a member of G4, group of nations who back each other in seeking a permanent seat on the Security Council and advocate in favour of the reformation of the UNSC.
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.
India's bid for permanent member of UNSC is now backed by four of the five permanent members, namely France, [68] [69] Russia, [70] United Kingdom [71] and United States. [72] On 15 April 2011, China officially expressed its support for an increased Indian role at the United Nations, without explicitly endorsing India's Security Council ambitions.
The G4 nations, comprising Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan, are four countries which support each other's bids for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. Unlike the G7, where the common denominator is the economy and long-term political motives, the G4's primary aim is the permanent member seats on the Security Council. Each ...
In 2020, when India was elected to become a non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council for the term 2021-2022, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) appointed four more foreign service officers to serve in the Permanent Mission in New York to boost diplomatic presence. An officer was appointed as Deputy Permanent Representative ...
As of 25 January 2025, there are 193 member states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. [1]The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations Security Council resolutions that recommended their admission and the United Nations General ...
The Group is bound by the firm conviction that expansion in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of membership of the Security Council is imperative to better reflect contemporary world realities, and achieve a more accountable, representative, transparent and more importantly a 'relevant' Security Council. [3]