With the USA’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities on 22 June 2025 (and I specify the date, because Trump is actively ...

Though Pakistan was not directly named, the P5 nations delivered a sharp rebuke, indirectly calling out Islamabad for fostering terrorism. The UNSC urged strict action against those responsible for ...

The UN Security Council is the premier global body for maintaining international peace and security, but it faces steady calls for reform to better meet twenty-first-century challenges.

Although ceremonial and lasting just a month, Pakistan takes over presidency at a critical juncture and has opportunity to do ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this week that as long as Russia has veto power on the body, it will remain powerless to ...

The refusal by the US to accept Africa as equal members in the UNSC, with the same powers that the rest of the P5 members have, exposes the lingering fault-lines in Washington’s foreign policy.

P5 refers to the Security Council’s permanent five members. Ungar said that while Biden expressed support for Security Council expansion, he did not make specific suggestions.

The UNSC is made up of 15 members, of which five are permanent. The five permanent members, known as P5 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – have veto power.

Pakistan assumes the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, a position it takes on as part of its two-year term as a non-permanent member. The presidency rotates monthly among the Council’s ...

The goal is to create a more representative and effective Security Council without undermining its ability to respond to global security challenges. However, it is not likely any such reform would ...

Asked if the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) enjoy the necessary power and authority to remove the UNSC sanctions against Iran without any need to the consent of the ...