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- $Title{United Nations
- Chapter 5. The Security Council}
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- $Date{1989}
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- Country: United Nations
- Book: Charter of the United Nations
- Author: United Nations Publications
- Affiliation: United Nations
- Date: 1989
-
- Chapter 5. The Security Council
-
- Composition
-
- Article 23
-
- 1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of the United
- Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist
- Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the
- United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council.
- The General Assembly shall elect ten other Members of the United Nations to be
- no-permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid,
- in the first instance of the contribution of Members of the United Nations to
- the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes
- of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution.
-
- 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for
- a term of two years. In the first election of the non-permanent members after
- the increase of the membership of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen,
- two of the four additional members shall be chosen for a term of one year. A
- retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election.
-
- 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative.
-
- Functions and Powers
-
- Article 24
-
- 1. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations,
- its Members confer on the Security Council primary responsibility for the
- maintenance of international peace and security, and agree that in carrying
- out its duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their
- behalf.
-
- 2. In discharging these duties the Security Council shall act in
- accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. The
- specific powers granted to the Security Council for the discharge of these
- duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, VIII, and XII.
-
- 3. The Security Council shall submit annual and, when necessary special
- reports to the General Assembly for its consideration.
-
- Article 25
-
- The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the
- decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.
-
- Article 26
-
- In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international
- peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's
- human and economic resources, the Security Council shall be responsible for
- formulating, with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee referred to
- in Article 47, plans to be submitted to the Members of the United Nations for
- the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments.
-
- Voting
-
- Article 27
-
- 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote.
-
- 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made
- by an affirmative vote of nine members.
-
- 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made
- by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the
- permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under
- paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.
-
- Procedure
-
- Article 28
-
- 1. The Security Council shall be so organized as to be able to function
- continuously. Each member of the Security Council shall for this purpose be
- represented at all times at the seat of the Organization.
-
- 2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its
- members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of the government or
- by some other specially designated representative.
-
- 3. The Security Council may hold meetings at such places other than the
- seat of the Organization as in its judgment will best facilitate its work.
-
- Article 29
-
- The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems
- necessary for the performance of its functions.
-
- Article 30
-
- The Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including
- the method of selecting its President.
-
- Article 31
-
- Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security
- Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question
- brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the
- interests of that Member are specially affected.
-
- Article 32
-
- Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security
- Council or any state which is not a Member of the United Nations, if it is a
- party to a dispute under consideration by the Security Council, shall be
- invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the
- dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just
- for the participation of a state which is not a Member of the United Nations.
-