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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.
Permanent member 80 United Kingdom: 1945: 2025: WEOG: Permanent member 80 United States: 1945: 2025: WEOG: Permanent member 54 China: 1971: 2025: Asia-Pacific: Permanent member 46 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: 1945: 1991: E. European: Former permanent member, replaced by the Russian Federation: 34 Russia: 1991: 2025: E. European ...
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. 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 ...
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Name Location Years Today part of United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA) Western New Guinea: 1962–1963 Indonesia: United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Cambodia: 1992–1993 Cambodia: United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) [1] and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, [2] recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, [3] and approving any changes to the UN Charter. [4]
P5, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc of states that border the Pacific Ocean. Permanent members include Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.