List of members of the United Nations Security Council
Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members.
Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold their place on the council for a two-year term, with five seats contested in even years and five seats contested in odd years. An outgoing member cannot be immediately re-elected.
Elections usually begin in October for a term starting January 1. Because of the two-thirds majority requirement, it is possible for two evenly matched candidates to deadlock with approximately half the vote each, sometimes needing weeks of negotiations to resolve.
Non-permanent seats are distributed geographically, with a certain number of seats allocated to each of the five United Nations Regional Groups.
Current membership
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Asia-Pacific Group | 1971, replaced the Republic of China |
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Western European and Others Group | 1945 |
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Eastern European Group | 1991, replaced the Soviet Union |
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Western European and Others Group | 1945 |
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Western European and Others Group | 1945 |
- Non-permanent members
Country | Regional Group | Term began | Term ends |
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African Group (Arab) | 2024 | 2025 |
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Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | 2023 | 2024 |
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Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | 2024 | 2025 |
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Asia-Pacific Group | 2023 | 2024 |
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Asia-Pacific Group | 2024 | 2025 |
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Western European and Others Group (WEOG) | 2023 | 2024 |
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African Group | 2023 | 2024 |
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African Group | 2024 | 2025 |
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Eastern European Group (EEG) | 2024 | 2025 |
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Western European and Others Group (WEOG) | 2023 | 2024 |
Regional Groups
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The ten non-permanent seats have the following distribution:
- African Group: 3 members
- Asia-Pacific Group: 2 members
- Eastern European Group: 1 member
- Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC): 2 members
- Western European and Others Group (WEOG): 2 members
In addition, one of the five African/Asian seats is an Arab country, alternating between the two groups. This rule was added in 1967 for it to be applied beginning with 1968.
- Electoral timetable
Term beginning in years that are: | Odd | Even |
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African Group | one member | two members * |
Asia-Pacific Group | one member | one member * |
Eastern European Group | none | one member |
Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | one member | one member |
Western European and Others Group | two members | none |
* The representative of Arab nations alternates between these two spaces.
The odd/even distribution was effectively decided by the January 1946 and December 1965 elections (the first ever election, and the first election after the expansion of seats). For each of the six and four members in the newly created seats, the UN General Assembly voted to grant either a 1-year or 2-year term.
Previous Security Council composition
[edit]From 1946 to 1965, the Security Council had six non-permanent members. Due to a lack of African and Asian member states, the seats had the following distribution:
- Latin America: 2 members
- Commonwealth of Nations: 1 member
- Eastern Europe: 1 member
- Middle East: 1 member
- Western Europe: 1 member
As decolonization increased the number of Asian and African member states without a group, they began to contest other seats: Ivory Coast substituted a member of the Commonwealth in 1964–1965, the Eastern European seat regularly included Asian countries from 1956, Liberia took the place of a Western European country in 1961, and Mali successfully contested the Middle Eastern seat in December 1964 (the Security Council would be expanded before Mali's term began).
An amendment to the UN Charter ratified in 1965 increased the number of non-permanent seats to 10, and the Regional Groups were formalized. The amendment effectively created three African seats and one Asian seat (if treating the Commonwealth seat as a WEOG seat and the Middle Eastern seat as an Asian seat[a]).
Membership by year
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Non-permanent (1946–1965)
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Non-permanent (1966–present)
[edit]The African Union uses an internal rotation system to distribute seats based on its subregions:[3][4]
- 1 odd-year seat alternates between Eastern Africa and Southern Africa (only Eastern Africa prior to the creation of the Southern Africa subregion in 1979)
- 1 even-year seat is allocated to Western Africa
- 1 even-year seat alternates between Northern Africa (the Arab nation seat) and Central Africa (with one exception at the beginning in 1966)
Arab nations in Eastern Africa, such as Somalia and Djibouti, may sit in the Eastern African seat without affecting any rotations. Thus there may be two Arab nations at once on the Security Council.
Aside from the Asia-Pacific Group also allocating an Arab nation seat every four years (in even years not divisible by 4), other regional groups do not have their own subregional rotation systems.[2][5] The Arab nation seat is starred below.
The Western European and Others Group in part contains three caucusing subgroups (Benelux, the Nordic countries, and CANZ[f]), whose candidates informally coordinate with each other.[6][5] While this has not resulted in a stable rotation system, it effectively guarantees that both seats will never be occupied by a single subgroup at the same time.[1]
List by number of years as Security Council member
[edit]This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations. These, combined with the 61 modern nations that have never been elected to the UNSC to date (see Non-members, below), make up the 193 current members of the UN.
Years on the Security Council, as of 2024[update], including current year where relevant :
Years[j] | Country | First Year | Most Recent Year | Regional Group | Notes |
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79 | ![]() |
1945 | 2024 | WEOG | Permanent member |
79 | ![]() |
1945 | 2024 | WEOG | Permanent member |
79 | ![]() |
1945 | 2024 | WEOG | Permanent member |
53 | ![]() |
1971 | 2024 | Asia-Pacific | Permanent member |
46 | ![]() |
1945 | 1991 | E. European | Former permanent member, replaced by Russian Federation |
33 | ![]() |
1991 | 2024 | E. European | Permanent member |
26 | ![]() |
1945 | 1971 | Asian | Former permanent member, replaced by People's Republic of China |
24 | ![]() |
1958 | 2024 | Asia-Pacific | |
22 | ![]() |
1946 | 2023 | GRULAC | |
18 | ![]() |
1948 | 2014 | GRULAC | |
16 | ![]() |
1950 | 2022 | Asia-Pacific | |
14 | ![]() |
1947 | 2012 | GRULAC | |
14 | ![]() |
1952 | 2013 | Asia-Pacific | Elected to serve a two-year term from 2025–2026 |
13 | ![]() |
1959 | 2017 | WEOG | |
12 | ![]() |
1947 | 2020 | WEOG | |
12 | ![]() |
1948 | 2000 | WEOG | |
12 | ![]() |
1977 | 2020 | WEOG | Includes 4 years when the Federal Republic of Germany consisted only of West Germany (but does not include East Germany's 2 years, listed separately below). |
11 | ![]() |
1946 | 2019 | E. European | |
10 | ![]() |
1946 | 2014 | WEOG | |
10 | ![]() |
1952 | 2015 | GRULAC | |
10 | ![]() |
1946 | 2018 | WEOG | |
10 | ![]() |
1966 | 2015 | African | |
10 | ![]() |
1949 | 2022 | WEOG | |
10 | ![]() |
1958 | 2008 | GRULAC | Elected to serve a two-year term from 2025–2026 |
10 | ![]() |
1955 | 2019 | GRULAC | |
10 | ![]() |
1969 | 2016 | WEOG | |
10 | ![]() |
1962 | 2016 | GRULAC | |
9 | ![]() |
1946 | 2017 | African (Arab) | Excludes 2 years with the seat held in the name of the United Arab Republic, of which for more than 15 months UAR served as the name of modern-day Egypt |
9 | ![]() |
1946 | 2022 | GRULAC | |
8 | ![]() |
1953 | 2006 | WEOG | Elected to serve a two-year term from 2025–2026 |
8 | ![]() |
1950 | 2024 | GRULAC | |
8 | ![]() |
1978 | 2023 | African | |
8 | ![]() |
1962 | 2023 | African | |
8 | ![]() |
1973 | 2020 | Asia-Pacific | |
8 | ![]() |
1957 | 2018 | WEOG | |
8 | ![]() |
1948 | 2017 | E. European | Includes 4 years of membership under the name of ![]() |
8 | ![]() |
1959 | 2021 | African (Arab) | |
7 | ![]() |
1968 | 2024 | African (Arab) | |
7 | ![]() |
1962 | 2022 | WEOG | |
7 | ![]() |
1965 | 2016 | Asia-Pacific | |
7 | ![]() |
1954 | 2016 | WEOG | |
7 | ![]() |
1962 | 2005 | E. European | |
7 | ![]() |
1951 | 2010 | WEOG | |
7 | ![]() |
1950 | 1989 | E. European | Predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia |
6 | ![]() |
1973 | 2010 | WEOG | |
6 | ![]() |
1964 | 2018 | GRULAC | |
6 | ![]() |
1966 | 2003 | E. European | |
6 | ![]() |
1974 | 2009 | GRULAC | |
6 | ![]() |
1949 | 1991 | GRULAC | |
6 | ![]() |
1967 | 2018 | African | |
6 | ![]() |
1964 | 2019 | African | |
6 | ![]() |
1965 | 2015 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
6 | ![]() |
1973 | 2022 | African | |
6 | ![]() |
1963 | 2013 | African (Arab) | |
6 | ![]() |
1957 | 2005 | Asia-Pacific | |
6 | ![]() |
1979 | 2012 | WEOG | |
6 | ![]() |
1968 | 2017 | African | |
6 | ![]() |
2007 | 2020 | African | |
6 | ![]() |
1947 | 2003 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | Excludes one year (1961) during which the United Arab Republic was a member, for the greater part of which Syria was a member of that union |
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1969 | 1988 | African | |
5 | ![]() |
1975 | 2024 | GRULAC | |
5 | ![]() |
1996 | 2024 | Asia-Pacific | |
5 | ![]() |
1966 | 2010 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
2003 | 2016 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1979 | 2001 | Asia-Pacific | |
4 | ![]() |
1976 | 2005 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1984 | 2009 | African | For first 7 months of membership of the Security council in 1984 was known as Upper Volta. |
4 | ![]() |
1974 | 2003 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1969 | 1990 | WEOG | |
4 | ![]() |
1952 | 2006 | WEOG | Elected to serve a two-year term from 2025–2026 |
4 | ![]() |
1972 | 2003 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1968 | 1993 | E. European | |
4 | ![]() |
1957 | 1975 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
4 | ![]() |
1979 | 2001 | GRULAC | |
4 | ![]() |
1978 | 2019 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
4 | ![]() |
1953 | 2011 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
4 | ![]() |
1976 | 2009 | African (Arab) | |
4 | ![]() |
1966 | 2001 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1983 | 2024 | WEOG | |
4 | ![]() |
1977 | 2002 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1969 | 1989 | Asia-Pacific | |
4 | ![]() |
1970 | 1984 | GRULAC | |
4 | ![]() |
1980 | 2021 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1986 | 2007 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1994 | 2014 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1975 | 2006 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1982 | 2013 | African | |
4 | ![]() |
1986 | 2023 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
4 | ![]() |
1965 | 2017 | GRULAC | |
4 | ![]() |
2008 | 2021 | Asia-Pacific | |
4 | ![]() |
1982 | 1991 | African | Now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo |
4 | ![]() |
1983 | 1992 | African | |
3 | ![]() |
1964 | 1979 | E. European | Predecessor of Czech Republic and Slovakia |
3 | ![]() |
1970 | 2024 | African | |
3 | ![]() |
1998 | 2024 | E. European | Was also part of the SFR Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
2022 | 2023 | E. European | |
2 | ![]() |
2012 | 2013 | E. European | Was part of the Soviet Union during its 45 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1998 | 1999 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
2 | ![]() |
2010 | 2011 | E. European | Was also part of the SFR Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1995 | 1996 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1970 | 1971 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1974 | 1975 | E. European | Now known as Belarus; Byelorussian SSR held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Soviet Union during its 45 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1992 | 1993 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1960 | 1961 | Asia-Pacific | Now known as Sri Lanka |
2 | ![]() |
2014 | 2015 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
2008 | 2009 | E. European | Was also part of the SFR Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1994 | 1995 | E. European | Was also part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1993 | 1994 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
2019 | 2020 | GRULAC | |
2 | ![]() |
1980 | 1981 | E. European | Now subsumed into Germany, which has 8 years of Security Council membership since it has included the former territory of East Germany |
2 | ![]() |
2020 | 2021 | E. European | Part of the Soviet Union from 1944 to 20 August 1991 |
2 | ![]() |
2018 | 2019 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1998 | 1999 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
2012 | 2013 | GRULAC | |
2 | ![]() |
1996 | 1997 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1995 | 1996 | GRULAC | |
2 | ![]() |
1955 | 1956 | Asia-Pacific | |
2 | ![]() |
2017 | 2018 | Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Soviet Union from 26 April 1920 to 25 December 1991 |
2 | ![]() |
2014 | 2015 | E. European | Part of the Soviet Union from 3 August 1940 to 11 March 1990 |
2 | ![]() |
2013 | 2014 | WEOG | |
2 | ![]() |
1985 | 1986 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1974 | 1975 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
2023 | 2024 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1999 | 2000 | African | |
2 | ![]() |
1994 | 1995 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
2 | ![]() |
1968 | 1969 | GRULAC | |
2 | ![]() |
2006 | 2007 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
2 | ![]() |
2020 | 2021 | GRULAC | Smallest nation to have held a place on the Security Council.[8] |
2 | ![]() |
2001 | 2002 | Asia-Pacific | Was also part of Malaysia for several months of 1965 during its membership of the Security Council |
2 | ![]() |
2006 | 2007 | E. European | Was also part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership |
2 | ![]() |
1971 | 1972 | African | Elected to serve a two-year term from 2025–2026 |
2 | ![]() |
1972 | 1973 | African (Arab) | |
2 | ![]() |
2023 | 2024 | WEOG | |
2 | ![]() |
1985 | 1986 | Asia-Pacific | |
2 | ![]() |
1985 | 1986 | GRULAC | |
2 | ![]() |
1961 | 1962 | Middle East | Union of Syria and Egypt |
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1990 | 1991 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | Inherited the seat from South Yemen; served the remaining of the term, for one year and seven months. |
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1990 | 1990 | Asian (Arab) | Held the Security Council seat for the first five months of membership, then unified with North Yemen and passed the seat to Yemen. |
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1961 | 1961 | African | Served only one year.[k] |
Future membership
[edit]The following countries have made known their applications for future United Nations Security Council membership:
Year | Africa | Asia-Pacific | Eastern Europe | Latin America & Caribbean | Western Europe & Others |
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2026–27 | Liberia[10] | Bahrain[11] | Latvia,[12] Montenegro[13] | ? | – |
2027–28 | ? | Philippines[14] Kyrgyzstan[15] | – | ? | Portugal,[16] Austria[17] |
2028–29 | ? | India[18] Tajikistan[19] | ? | ? | – |
2029–30 | ? | Iran, Uzbekistan[20] | – | ? | Australia,[21] Finland[17] |
2030–31 | ? | ? | Croatia[22] | ? | – |
2031–32 | ? | ? | – | Guatemala[23] | ? |
2032–33 | ? | ? | Armenia[24] | ? | – |
2037–38 | ? | ? | – | ? | Belgium[25] |
Non-members
[edit]The United Nations Charter requires that elections to the Security Council take into account "the contribution of Members...to the maintenance of international peace and security". As a result, many nations, small or otherwise, have never been on the Security Council. The following list is a summary of all countries, currently 61 modern nations[26] and three historical ones, that have never been a member of the United Nations Security Council. The three historical UN members listed are Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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UN Member state | Regional Group | Security Council membership as part of another entity |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1632 to 1 November 1981 |
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E. European | Was part of the Soviet Union from 29 November 1920 to 25 December 1991 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1717 to 10 July 1973 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1625 to 30 November 1966 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1862 to 21 September 1981 |
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Asia-Pacific | |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom from 1888 to 1984 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of France from 1863 to 9 November 1953 |
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African | Was a colony of France from 1894 to 13 August 1960 |
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African | Was a colony of France from 1841 to 6 July 1975 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 5 November 1914 to 16 August 1960 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1783 to 3 November 1978 |
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GRULAC | |
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African | Was under the administration of the United Kingdom from 1941 to 1947, then a United Nations Trust Territory from 1947 to 1952, then part of Ethiopia from 1952 to 24 May 1993 |
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African | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 6 September 1968 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1874 to 10 October 1970 |
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E. European | Was part of the Soviet Union from 25 February 1921 to 25 December 1991 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1763 to 7 February 1974 |
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None / WEOG[l] | Part of a League of Nations mandate under United Kingdom administration from 25 April 1920 to 14 May 1948 |
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Asian / None[m] | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1892 to 12 July 1979 |
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Asia-Pacific | |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Soviet Union from 1 February 1926 to 25 December 1991 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of France from 1893 to 19 July 1949 |
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E. European | Part of the Soviet Union from September 1944 to 21 August 1991 |
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African | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1884 to 4 October 1966 |
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WEOG | |
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African | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1891 to 6 July 1964 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1887 to 26 July 1965 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States from 17 July 1947 to 21 October 1986 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States from 17 July 1947 to 3 November 1986 |
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E. European | Was part of the Soviet Union from 28 June 1940 to 25 December 1991 |
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WEOG | |
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Asia-Pacific | |
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E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia from 29 November 1943 to 28 April 1992[n] |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1824 to 4 January 1948 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a United Nations Trust Territory administered by the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand from 1 January 1946 to 31 January 1968 |
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E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia from 29 November 1943 to 3 April 1993 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States from 17 July 1947 to 1 October 1994 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was administered by Australia in the case of the Territory of Papua from 1905, the Territory of New Guinea as a League of Nations mandate from 1919 and as a unified Territory of Papua and New Guinea from 1949 until 16 September 1975 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1713 to 19 September 1983 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1803 to 22 February 1979 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a League of Nations mandate under the administration of New Zealand from 17 December 1920 to 25 January 1947, then a United Nations Trust Territory under the administration of New Zealand from 25 January 1947 to 1 January 1962 |
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WEOG | |
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African | Was a colony of Portugal until 12 July 1975 |
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Asia-Pacific | Saudi Arabia was elected in the 2013 election, but declined the seat.[27] |
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E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia from 31 January 1946 to 27 April 1992[o] |
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E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia from 29 November 1943 to 27 April 1992 |
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African | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 29 June 1976 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1893 to 7 July 1978 |
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African | Was part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt until 1 January 1956, then part of Sudan from 1 January 1956 to 9 July 2011 |
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GRULAC | Was a colony of the Netherlands from 1667 to 25 November 1975 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Soviet Union from 14 October 1924 to 25 December 1991 |
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Commonwealth Seat | Was a League of Nations mandate under the administration of the United Kingdom from 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946, then a United Nations Trust Territory under the administration of the United Kingdom until 9 December 1962, then independent until federation with Zanzibar to form Tanzania |
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Asia-Pacific | Was occupied by Indonesia from 7 December 1975 to 31 October 1999 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom from 18 May 1900 to 4 June 1970 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Soviet Union from 13 May 1925 to 8 December 1991 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 1892 to 1 October 1978 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Soviet Union from 13 May 1925 to 25 December 1991 |
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Asia-Pacific | Was a Condominium under joint sovereignty of the United Kingdom and France from 1906 to 30 July 1980 |
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Commonwealth Seat | Was a colony of the United Kingdom from 27 August 1896 to 10 December 1963, then independent until federation with Tanganyika to form Tanzania on 26 April 1964. |
See also
[edit]- United Nations Regional Groups
- Member states of the United Nations
- List of members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- List of members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Notes
[edit]- ^ In practice, the Commonwealth seat was by then treated as a de facto African seat.[1]
- ^ The Eastern Europe group included Asian countries from 1956 onwards.
- ^ a b Tunisia and Morocco were treated as Middle Eastern countries due to being members of the Arab League.[2]
- ^ Liberia took the place of the Western European country in 1961
- ^ Ivory Coast took the place of a member of the Commonwealth in 1964–1965.
- ^ Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
- ^ Part of Western Africa, not Central Africa
- ^ At the time of election, and until August 1984, the country was known as Republic of Upper Volta.
- ^ The election was secured by South Yemen, and in May 1990, during its membership of the Security Council, it unified with North Yemen to form the single country of Yemen.
- ^ Table shows years completed or in progress. Each term on the Council consist of 2 years. Any odd number of years are countries currently serving the first year of a term, countries with terms between 1956 and 1967, when the order of the council changed, or the three countries (Mexico, Egypt and the Netherlands) who had the first terms in 1946 and changed in 1947.
- ^ Liberia retired after one year following an agreement reached on the 15th Session. Ireland was elected for the remainder of the two-year term.[9]
- ^ Not a member of any regional group until joining the WEOG in 2000. Crossette, Barbara (3 December 1999). "Membership in Key Group Within U.N. Eludes Israel". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ As of May 2006, Kiribati is not a member of any regional group.
- ^ Montenegro was also part of FR Yugoslavia and of Serbia and Montenegro from 27 April 1992 to 5 June 2006, but these entities were not members of the Security Council.
- ^ Serbia was also part of FR Yugoslavia and of Serbia and Montenegro from 27 April 1992 to 5 June 2006, but these entities were not members of the Security Council.
References
[edit]- ^ a b The United Nations Security Council, The Green Papers Worldwide
- ^ a b Agam, Hasmy; Sam Daws; Terence O'Brien; Ramesh Takur (26 March 1999). What is Equitable Geographic Representation in the Twenty-First Century (PDF) (Report). United Nations University. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Endeley, Isaac (2009). Bloc Politics at the United Nations: The African Group. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0761845584.
- ^ Endeley, Isaac (1998). Le Groupe africain à l'ONU dans l'après-guerre froide (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université de Montréal. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Special Research Report No. 1: UN Security Council Elections 2009 : Research Report : Security Council Report".
- ^ "Special Research Report No. 4: Security Council Elections 2006 : Research Report : Security Council Report".
- ^ "Italy, Netherlands ask to share Security Council seat". Al Jazeera. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
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