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: 20 November 2024
UPDATE WEBSITE OF
THE PROCEDURE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, 4TH EDITION
by Loraine Sievers and Sam Daws, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014
CHAPTER 5: Section 1 Changes
Controversies increase over participation of non-Council Member States in Council meetings
11 August 2024
For a number of years, there was general agreement among Council members as to the practices surrounding
the participation of non-members in formal Council meetings. However, especially after Russian forces invaded
Ukraine in 2022, a number of contentious issues have arisen over such participation, which has led to the
unravelling of many of the Council’s earlier understandings . . .
After procedural vote, Council invites Ukraine to participate in Iran non-proliferation meeting
8 July 2023
On 6 July 2023, the Security Council met for its biennial consideration of resolution 2231 (2015). Following
adoption of the agenda, the Russian representative took the floor and questioned the Council President (United
Kingdom) on the proposal to extend an invitation to the representative of Ukraine to participate in the meeting
pursuant to Rule 37 . . .
Russian objection to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy briefing via VTC fails in procedural vote
25 August 2022
At a 24 August 2022 meeting on Ukraine, the Council President (China) stated that he had received a letter from
Ukraine requesting that President Zelenskyy be invited to address the Council via video-teleconference (VTC).
The Russian representative then took the floor to object and to request a procedural vote . . .
Turkey complains that blocked from speaking for OIC at 1 June 2018 meeting on Gaza
2 July 2018
On 1 June 2018, the Turkish representative wrote to the Security Council President calling it “deeply regrettable” that his request to speak on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at a Council meeting on the situation in Gaza “was not accommodated owing to the objection of one permanent member” . . .
At successive meetings, Council Presidents seek to keep Syrian statements to established time limits
22 March 2018
After a series of Council meetings at which the Syrian representative spoke for more than 20 minutes, on 22 February 2018, the Council President (Kuwait) encouraged him to limit his statement to five minutes in accordance with S/2017/507 . . .
DPRK participates in meeting on its nuclear weapons programme for first time since 2006
31 December 2017
On 15 December 2017, for the first time since 2006, a representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea participated in a Security Council meeting convened on its nuclear weapons programme . . .