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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 United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo 12 August 2011

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Security Council mission to the African Union; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Liberia 11 June 2009

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Security Council mission to Haiti (11 to 14 March 2009) 3 April 2009

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Letter dated 18 March 2009 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council: Report of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on his mission to the Great Lakes region from 22 November to 5 December 2008 with respect to the situation in North Kivu 19 March 2009

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention : addendum : mission to Italy 26 January 2009

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Security Council mission to Afghanistan, 21 to 28 November 2008 12 December 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

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

Report of the Security Council mission to Timor-Leste, 24 to 30 November 2007 6 December 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Corrigendum to the Report of the Security Council Mission to Addis Ababa, Khartoum, Accra, Abidjan and Kinshasa, 14 to 21 June 2007 13 July 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Security Council Mission to Addis Ababa, Khartoum, Accra, Abidjan and Kinshasa, 14 to 21 June 2007 11 July 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Security Council | Document type: Mission Reports


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