Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Five members belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement will sit on the Security Council in 2022
11 October 2021
Of the countries serving terms on the Security Council in 2022, five will be full members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM): Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, representing a drop of one from the 2021 Council . . .
Vetoes, insufficient votes and competing draft resolutions accentuate divisions within the Council
2 April 2022
Since 2000, and especially since 2010, there has been a marked increase in divisive votes in the Security Council,
which reflects the fact that some Council members are now less willing to shield the Council's divisions from
public view. In part, this reflects the polarizing nature of some key items more recently before the Council . . .
Last Update: 18 Apr. 2024
UPDATE WEBSITE OF
THE PROCEDURE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, 4TH EDITION
by Loraine Sievers and Sam Daws, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
Updated on 3 April 2019
Chapter 2: PLACE AND FORMAT OF COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Section 9: Place of meeting at Headquarters
Germany convenes meeting in Chamber with open curtains, after decades of caution owing to 1964 bazooka firing
On 3 April 2019, in a striking symbol of transparency, the German presidency of the Security Council convened two back-to-back meetings[1] in the Council Chamber with the curtains fully open.
It had long been the practice, primarily for security reasons, for the curtains at the Chamber’s immense floor-to-ceiling windows to be closed virtually around the clock, and particularly during official meetings. As was described by the author in another book, The Security Council Chamber,[2] keeping the curtains in place to help block any shattering glass was not just a theoretical precaution. In 1964, when Che Guevara was addressing the General Assembly, Cuban exiles fired a 3.5-inch bazooka at the United Nations from across the East River. Fortunately, the shell fell about 200 yards from shore, merely sending up a 15-foot geyser of water and scattering a flock of seagulls. However, a later investigation determined that had the bazooka been properly aimed, its shell would have penetrated the UN building, especially if it had struck a window.
Although no recent Council presidency had opened the curtains during a formal Council meeting, the German initiative was made feasible by an upgrade undertaken during the Capital Master Plan renovations of the Security Council Chamber, completed in 2013. At that time, replacement windows of shatter-resistant glass were installed, lessening, although not completely eliminating, security concerns.
The previous year, during the Netherlands March 2018 Council presidency, that delegation broke the ice at least a little by opening the curtains in the Council’s nearby Consultations Room,[3] which also had previously been drawn as a security precaution.
(This update supplements pages 61-62 of the procedure book.)
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[1] S/PV.8501 and S/PV.8502.
[2] Loraine Sievers, “The Security Council Chamber through the Eyes of Those Who Meet There”, in The Security Council Chamber, Jørn Holme, ed., Oslo, Forlaget Press, 2108, p. 188. This book, on page 182, also has a striking photo of Che Guevara, during that same visit to New York, leaning against the Council Chamber wall with a lighted cigar in his hand.