{"id":5952,"date":"2025-04-19T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:09:24","slug":"what-is-the-united-nations-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-united-nations-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Security Council (UNSC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Kuwait\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN, who chairs the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on UNSC reforms, recently affirmed that India will &#8220;surely&#8221; be a strong contender if the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is expanded.<\/p>\n<h2>About the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>UNSC is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations (UN)<\/strong>, with the\u00a0<strong>primary responsibility<\/strong>\u00a0of maintaining\u00a0<strong>international peace and security<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Under the\u00a0<strong>UN Charter<\/strong>, all member states must\u00a0<strong>comply with UNSC decisions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It determines\u00a0<strong>threats to peace<\/strong>, recommends\u00a0<strong>settlement methods<\/strong>, imposes\u00a0<strong>sanctions<\/strong>, and authorises\u00a0<strong>military actions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Structure and Membership<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>UNSC consists of 15 members<\/strong>, each having\u00a0<strong>one vote<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five permanent members (P5)<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>veto power<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li><i>China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ten non-permanent members<\/strong>, elected by the\u00a0<strong>UN General Assembly<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>two-year terms<\/strong>, with equitable\u00a0<strong>geographical representation<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5 from Africa\/Asia<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>1 from Eastern Europe<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>2 from Latin America<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>2 from Western Europe\/others<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The UNSC is headquartered at the United Nations Headquartersin\u00a0<strong>New York City<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>G4 Nations\u2019 Position and India\u2019s Advocacy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India, Brazil, Germany, and Japan (G4)<\/strong>\u00a0are actively advocating UNSC reform. At a recent IGN meeting,\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s Permanent Representative\u00a0<\/strong>declared the\u00a0<strong>current UNSC structure outdated<\/strong>, no longer reflecting\u00a0<strong>contemporary geopolitical realities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>G4 proposal<\/strong>\u00a0calls for:\n<ul>\n<li>Expanding the Council from\u00a0<strong>15 to 25 or 26 members<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Including\u00a0<strong>11 permanent members<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>14\u201315 non-permanent members<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Encouraging\u00a0<strong>Member States to submit models<\/strong>\u00a0to enable\u00a0<strong>formal negotiations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>United Nations Security Council (UNSC) FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong>\u00a0What is the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0UNSC is one of the six principal organs of the UN responsible for maintaining international peace and security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong>\u00a0How many members are there in the UNSC?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0The UNSC has 15 members \u2014 5 permanent (P5) members and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong>\u00a0Who are the permanent members of the UNSC?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0The P5 members are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, each holding veto power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/india-united-nations-security-council-permanent-seat-kuwait-official-2710956-2025-04-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNSC is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations (UN), with the primary responsibility of maintaining international peace and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190],"class_list":{"0":"post-5952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-united-nations-security-council","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}