The United Nations Security Council is the United Nations body responsible for maintain peace and security in the world, reason why it is constituted in one of its six main organs. What’s more, It is the one that concentrates the most power.
Mission and powers of the Security Council
Whenever peace is threatened in the world, this committee will meet for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.
The countries that make up the UN undertake to accept and apply the decisions of the Council of the Security Council, this means that, while the other organs of the United Nations limit themselves to making recommendations, the decisions of the Security Council yes they must be applied in a mandatory way by the members by virtue of the Charter of the United Nations, according to a website post ACE.
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Council decisions can range from a peaceful degree to coercive measures such as economic sanctions, rupture of diplomatic relations, blockades or collective military actions. The measures will depend on the intensity of the conflict that is developing.
Who make up the UN Security Council?
The Security Council held its first session on January 17, 1946. Currently, it is permanently installed in the United Nations headquarters in New York, United States.
According to article 23 of the Charter, the Security Council is composed of five permanent members (China, the United States, the Russian Federation, France and the United Kingdom) and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for a period of two years. These members are distributed as follows:
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to) Five members from the States of Africa and Asia.
b) A member of the Eastern European States.
c) Two members from Latin American States.
d) Two members from Western European States and other States.
countries with veto power
In the UN Security Council there are five permanent members who have the veto option. Is about United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain, nations that won World War II. These countries have the competence to block any decision to be taken in the highest body of the UN.
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The veto, used on several occasions by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, it has also been used by Russia to prevent the UN’s condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine. The Security Council is currently chaired by the Russian Federation. (I)
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