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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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	Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of civilians in Chad	29 April 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Chad	9 February 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad	1 December 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad	30 July 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Security Council resolution 1923 (2010) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)]	25 May 2010
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Security Council resolution 1922 (2010) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)]	12 May 2010
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and in Chad (MINURCAT)	29 April 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Security Council resolution 1913 (2010) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT)]	12 March 2010
Category: Legal Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
	Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad	14 October 2009
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
	Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad	14 July 2009
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports

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