Current Members | Security Council - United Nations
Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end...
Russia assumes UN Security Council presidency despite Ukrainian anger - BBC
Apr 1, 2023 · Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a...
Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Ukraine - United …
Colleagues, nearly three years ago, Russia appalled the world with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin wanted to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government. Since then, Russia has violated the UN Charter, multiple resolutions of this Council, the Geneva Conventions, humanitarian international law, and Putin has shown the world he …
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Russia ‘can only be forced into peace’ …
Sep 24, 2024 · The UN Security Council is meeting for a high level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign ministers and ambassadors that Russia's invasion of Ukraine since...
Zelenskyy says Russia's Security Council veto undermines world …
Sep 20, 2023 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday called for expanding the UN Security Council and reforming the right of veto granted to its permanent members, in his first in-person...
Russia runs the UN Security Council this month. Ukraine says it’s …
Apr 1, 2023 · Adding to discomfort over Russia’s new role is the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin last month became the first head of state of a permanent member of the United Nations Security...
Russia holds a UN meeting about global cooperation. US calls it ...
Jul 16, 2024 · The finger-pointing came at Russia ’s showcase event during its presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month, and it chose the topic — “Multilateral cooperation for a more just, democratic and sustainable world order.” Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, flew in from Moscow to preside.
The UN Security Council - Council on Foreign Relations
Sep 9, 2024 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the Security Council via video amid Russia’s war. Andrew Kelly/Reuters. The fifteen-member UN Security Council seeks to address threats to...
Russia vetoes Security Council resolution condemning attempted ...
Sep 30, 2022 · Russia on Friday vetoed a Security Council resolution which described its attempts to unlawfully annex four regions of Ukraine earlier in the day with a formal ceremony in Moscow, as “a...
Russia running the U.N. Security Council is going about how …
Apr 23, 2023 · Russia — one of the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council — last held the council presidency in February 2022, the month it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine....