A United Nations police officer salutes as Ecuador's U.N. Ambassador Hernán Pérez Loose, right, installs his country's flag during a ceremony for five newly-elected non-permanent members to ...

This week, the United States said it would support adding two permanent seats for African states and one rotating seat for developing island nations to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

Only nine months ago, Sierra Leone returned as a non-permanent member of the Security Council after an absence of 53 years. Twenty-five years ago, our shattering civil war was among the thorniest ...

Here’s How Security Council Elections Work. There are 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. Five of them are permanent: the USA, China, the UK, France, and Russia. These “P-5” countries ...

The United Nations Secretary-General has the competence, under Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations, to bring to the attention of the Security Council situations, or issues he thinks ...

Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, Greece's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, attends the Flag Installation ceremony for the newly elected members of the UN Security Council, United ...

The United Nations heads of state will be heading to New York next week for ... the U.S. has announced it is supporting plans to expand the number of permanent members on the U.N. Security Council.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Their two-year term officially started on January 1.

The Security Council, the United Nations’ principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on the 193 UN member states to maintain peace.

The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body, with the ability to impose sanctions and authorize the use of force. There are five permanent members of the council: Russia, France ...