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UN Security Council

The Security Council has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security. Organized to function continuously, a representative of each of its members must be present at all times at United Nations Headquarters. The Council consists of 15 members: five permanent members with veto power (China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America) and ten non-permanent members (Membership: Austria (2010), Japan (2010), Turkey (2010), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011), Lebanon (2011), Uganda (2010), Brazil (2011), Mexico (2010), Gabon (2011), Nigeria (2011)), five of which are elected each year by the General Assembly for a two-year term. Website: www.un.org/sc

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	Security Council resolution 2023 (2011) [on expansion of the mandate of the Monitoring Group re-established by resolution 2002 (2011)]	5 December 2011
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Report of the Secretary-General on the Eritrea	22 June 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Security Council resolution 1916 (2010) [on re-establishment of the UN Monitoring Group Established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1519 (2003)]	19 March 2010
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Security Council resolution 1907 (2009) [on arms embargo against Eritrea and on expansion of the mandate of the Security Council Committee Established pursuant to Resolution 751 (1992)]	23 December 2009
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Security Council resolution 1862 (2009) [on resolving the border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea and the withdrawal of Eritrean forces from the area of conflict]	14 January 2009
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Letter dated 11 September 2008 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council : report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Djibouti-Eritrea crisis	12 September 2008
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Mission Reports
	Security Council resolution 1827 (2008) [on termination of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)]	30 July 2008
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Letter dated 2008/07/28 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council [United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea]	29 July 2008
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Statement by the President of the Security Council [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 5908th meeting, 12 June 2008, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "Peace and security in Africa"]	12 June 2008
Category: Policy Documents \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Presidential Statements
	Statement by the President of the Security Council [made on behalf of the Security Council, at the 5883rd meeting, 30 Apr. 2008, in connection with the Council's consideration of the item entitled "The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia"]	30 April 2008
Category: Policy Documents \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Presidential Statements

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