Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the United Nations Security Council and learn more about the 15-member body within the UN.

Here’s How Security Council Elections Work. There are 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. Five of them are permanent: the USA, China, the UK, France, and Russia. These “P-5” countries ...

President Biden has embraced "reforms" of the United Nations Security Council that are impractical and would undermine U.S. interests.

W hen the Security Council was founded as part of the United Nations in 1945, it was built as “an extension of the powers that defeated Hitler and Japan,” and a way to “lock in place the ...

The Security Council, the United Nations’ principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on the 193 UN member states to maintain peace.

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia to the 15-member U.N. Security Council for two-year terms starting on Jan. 1, 2025.

The United Nations Security Council adopted its first resolution, S/RES/1(1946), on 25 January 1946 – long before the current modes of online distribution of documents. As of 30 November 2024 ...

The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Friday seeking "urgent steps" to expand aid in Gaza, but could not secure the unanimous support needed to call for an immediate cease-fire.