Under the Charter, the Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It has 15 Members, and each Member has one vote. Under the Charter ...

"India is undeniably the third-most powerful country in the world today, after the United States and China. Meanwhile, Great ...

Membership can only be decided upon by the UN Security Council. Friday's vote can be seen ... Palau and Papua New Guinea. The UK was one of 25 nations to abstain. Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour ...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will on Tuesday address a meeting of the United ...

At its sixty-first session, the General Assembly elected five non-permanent members of the Security Council (decision 61/402) [page 4]. At present, the Council is thus composed of the following 15 ...

Finland's President Alexander Stubb has called for expansion of the U.N. Security Council, abolition of its single state veto ...

The Security Committee was established by the Council's security rules on protecting EU classified information, most recently amended by Council Decision 2013/488/EU of 23 September 2013. The Security ...

It honors the memory of David A. Morse, an active Council on Foreign Relations member for nearly thirty years. The UK Foreign Secretary Makes His First Speech UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has ...

The Council is the governing body of the Consumers’ Association ... and a member of the Advisory Board and chair of Audit and Risk at the UK Health Security Agency. She was recently appointed a ...

The exception is the Foreign Affairs Council, which is usually chaired by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The Council takes its decisions by a simple ...

The double yellow lines that were painted over potholes in Lymington, Hampshire Credit: Cllr Jack Davies/Solent News & Photo Agency A council has come under fire after painting over a street’s ...

The 72-year-old was replaced as head of Russia's Security Council by sacked defence minister Sergei Shoigu on Monday. His friendship with the Russian president dates back to the 1970s, when the ...