The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and is the United Nations' executive branch, having primary responsibility for the maintenance of internat
UN Security Council Chamber in New York
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945
Church House in London, where the first Security Council meeting took place on 17 January 1946
The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the
United Nations Security Council
…informal responsibility for a particular area of concern. Penholders draft resolutions and organize meetings. They are generally drawn from the P5 (permanent members of the Council) or P3 (US, Britain, and France). Penholdership has no formal status. It nevertheless is "accepted, however unwillingly, as 'the way things are done…
Leaders of the five permanent member states at the Millennium Summit in 2000. Clockwise from front left: Chinese President Jiang Zemin, US President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and French President Jacques Chirac.
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Jérôme Bonnafont 2014
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