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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 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: Permanent member 26 Republic of China: 1945: 1971: Asian: Former permanent member, replaced by the People's ...
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 1 March 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 Antarctica ...
All are either member states of the United Nations or non-member observer states at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), [13] and all except Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Vatican City are members of the Council of Europe. [14] 44 countries have their capital city located within Europe, and (as of 2022) 27 of those countries are member ...
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 ...
1 These countries are currently not participating in the EU's single market (EEA), but the EU has common external Customs Union agreements with Turkey (EU-Turkey Customs Union in force since 1995), Andorra (since 1991) and San Marino (since 2002). Monaco participates in the EU customs union through its relationship with France; its ports are ...
The Eastern European Group in 2012, with the years each member spent in the United Nations Security Council, including former members represented as outlines. The Group of Eastern European States (EEG) is one of the five United Nations regional groups and is composed of 23 Member States from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. [1] [2]