List of members of the United Nations Security Council
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Map showing the members of the United Nations Security Council Template:As of, with permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) in blue, and non-permanent members (Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia) in green.
Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members.
Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold their place on the council for a two-year term, with five seats contested in even years and five seats contested in odd years. An outgoing member cannot be immediately re-elected.
Elections usually begin in June for a term starting January 1. Because of the two-thirds majority requirement, it is possible for two evenly matched candidates to deadlock with approximately half the vote each, sometimes needing weeks of negotiations to resolve.
Non-permanent seats are distributed geographically, with a certain number of seats allocated to each of the five United Nations Regional Groups.
Current membershipEdit
- Non-permanent members
| Country | Regional Group | Term began | Term ends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flag | African Group (Arab) | 2024 | 2025 |
| Template:Flag | Western European and Others Group (WEOG) | 2025 | 2026 |
| Template:Flag | Western European and Others Group (WEOG) | 2025 | 2026 |
| Template:Flag | Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | 2024 | 2025 |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific Group | 2025 | 2026 |
| Template:Flag | Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | 2025 | 2026 |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific Group | 2024 | 2025 |
| Template:Flag | African Group | 2024 | 2025 |
| Template:Flag | Eastern European Group (EEG) | 2024 | 2025 |
| Template:Flag | African Group | 2025 | 2026 |
Regional GroupsEdit
The ten non-permanent seats have the following distribution:
- African Group: 3 members
- Asia-Pacific Group: 2 members
- Eastern European Group: 1 member
- Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC): 2 members
- Western European and Others Group (WEOG): 2 members
In addition, one of the five African/Asian seats is an Arab country, alternating between the two groups. This rule was added in 1967 for it to be applied beginning with 1968.
- Electoral timetable
| Term beginning in years that are: | Odd | Even |
|---|---|---|
| African Group | one member | two members * |
| Asia-Pacific Group | one member | one member * |
| Eastern European Group | none | one member |
| Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) | one member | one member |
| Western European and Others Group | two members | none |
* The representative of Arab nations alternates between these two spaces.
The odd/even distribution was effectively decided by the January 1946 and 1965 elections (the first ever election, and the first election after the expansion of seats). For each of the six and four members in the newly created seats, the UN General Assembly voted to grant either a 1-year or 2-year term.
Previous Security Council compositionEdit
From 1946 to 1965, the Security Council had six non-permanent members. Due to a lack of African and Asian member states, the seats had the following distribution:
- Latin America: 2 members
- Commonwealth of Nations: 1 member
- Eastern Europe: 1 member
- Middle East: 1 member
- Western Europe: 1 member
As decolonization increased the number of Asian and African member states without a group, they began to contest other seats: Ivory Coast substituted a member of the Commonwealth in 1964–1965, the Eastern European seat regularly included Asian countries from 1956, Liberia took the place of a Western European country in 1961, and Mali successfully contested the Middle Eastern seat in December 1964 (the Security Council would be expanded before Mali's term began).
An amendment to the UN Charter ratified in 1965 increased the number of non-permanent seats to 10, and the Regional Groups were formalized. The amendment effectively created three African seats and one Asian seat (if treating the Commonwealth seat as a WEOG seat and the Middle Eastern seat as an Asian seatTemplate:Efn).
Membership by yearEdit
PermanentEdit
| Year | Chinese seat | French seat | Soviet/Russian seat | British seat | American seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Template:Flag deco Republic of China | Template:Flag deco Prov. Gov. of France | Template:Flag | Template:Flag | Template:Flag |
| 1946 | Template:Flagdeco French Fourth Republic | ||||
| 1949 | Template:Flag deco Republic of China (Taiwan) | ||||
| 1958 | Template:Flag deco French Fifth Republic | ||||
| 1971 | Template:Flag | ||||
| 1991–present | Template:Flag |
Non-permanent (1946–1965)Edit
Non-permanent (1966–present)Edit
The African Union uses an internal rotation system to distribute seats based on its subregions:<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref>
- 1 odd-year seat alternates between Eastern Africa and Southern Africa (only Eastern Africa prior to the creation of the Southern Africa subregion in 1979)
- 1 even-year seat is allocated to Western Africa
- 1 even-year seat alternates between Northern Africa (the Arab nation seat) and Central Africa (with one exception at the beginning in 1966)
Aside from the Asia-Pacific Group also allocating an Arab nation seat every four years (in even years not divisible by 4), other regional groups do not have their own subregional rotation systems.<ref name="equitable"/><ref name="report2009">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Arab nation seat is starred below.
The Western European and Others Group in part contains three caucusing subgroups (Benelux, the Nordic countries, and CANZTemplate:Efn), whose candidates informally coordinate with each other.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="report2009"/> While this has not resulted in a stable rotation system, it effectively guarantees that both seats will never be occupied by a single subgroup at the same time.<ref name="thegreenpapers">The United Nations Security Council, The Green Papers Worldwide</ref>
List by number of years as Security Council memberEdit
This list contains the 138 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 132 modern nations. These, combined with the 61 modern nations that have never been elected to the UNSC to date (see Non-members, below), make up the 193 current members of the UN.
Years on the Security Council, Template:As of, including current year where relevant :
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| YearsTemplate:Efn | Country | First Year | Most Recent Year | Regional Group | Notes |
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| 80 | Template:Flag | 1945 | 2025 | WEOG | Permanent member |
| 80 | Template:Flag | 1945 | 2025 | WEOG | Permanent member |
| 80 | Template:Flag | 1945 | 2025 | WEOG | Permanent member |
| 54 | Template:Flag | 1971 | 2025 | Asia-Pacific | Permanent member |
| 46 | Template:Flag | 1945 | 1991 | E. European | Former permanent member, replaced by the Russian Federation |
| 34 | Template:Flag | 1991 | 2025 | E. European | Permanent member |
| 26 | Template:Flag | 1945 | 1971 | Asian | Former permanent member, replaced by the People's Republic of China |
| 24 | Template:Flag | 1958 | 2024 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 22 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2023 | GRULAC | |
| 18 | Template:Flag | 1948 | 2014 | GRULAC | |
| 16 | Template:Flag | 1950 | 2022 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 15 | Template:Flag | 1952 | 2025 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 14 | Template:Flag | 1947 | 2012 | GRULAC | |
| 13 | Template:Flag | 1959 | 2017 | WEOG | |
| 12 | Template:Flag | 1947 | 2020 | WEOG | |
| 12 | Template:Flag | 1948 | 2000 | WEOG | |
| 12 | Template:Flag | 1977 | 2020 | WEOG | Includes 4 years when the Federal Republic of Germany consisted only of West Germany (but does not include East Germany's 2 years, listed separately below). |
| 11 | Template:Flag | 1958 | 2025 | GRULAC | |
| 11 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2019 | E. European | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2014 | WEOG | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1952 | 2015 | GRULAC | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2018 | WEOG | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1966 | 2015 | African | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1949 | 2022 | WEOG | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1955 | 2019 | GRULAC | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1969 | 2016 | WEOG | |
| 10 | Template:Flag | 1962 | 2016 | GRULAC | |
| 9 | Template:Flag | 1953 | 2025 | WEOG | |
| 9 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2017 | African (Arab) | Excludes 2 years with the seat held in the name of the United Arab Republic, of which for more than 15 months UAR served as the name of modern-day Egypt |
| 9 | Template:Flag | 1946 | 2022 | GRULAC | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1968 | 2025 | African (Arab) | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1950 | 2024 | GRULAC | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1978 | 2023 | African | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1962 | 2023 | African | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1973 | 2020 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1957 | 2018 | WEOG | |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1948 | 2017 | E. European | Includes 4 years of membership under the name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Ukrainian SSR held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 8 | Template:Flag | 1959 | 2021 | African (Arab) | |
| 7 | Template:Flag | 1962 | 2022 | WEOG | |
| 7 | Template:Flag | 1965 | 2016 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 7 | Template:Flag | 1954 | 2016 | WEOG | |
| 7 | Template:Flag | 1962 | 2005 | E. European | |
| 7 | Template:Flag | 1951 | 2010 | WEOG | |
| 7 | Template:Flag country | 1950 | 1989 | E. European | Predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1973 | 2010 | WEOG | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1966 | 2003 | E. European | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1974 | 2009 | GRULAC | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1964 | 2019 | African | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1949 | 1991 | GRULAC | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1967 | 2018 | African | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1975 | 2025 | GRULAC | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1965 | 2015 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1973 | 2022 | African | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1996 | 2025 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1963 | 2013 | African (Arab) | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1957 | 2005 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1979 | 2012 | WEOG | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1964 | 2018 | GRULAC | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1968 | 2017 | African | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 2007 | 2020 | African | |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1947 | 2003 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | Excludes one year (1961) during which the United Arab Republic was a member, for the greater part of which Syria was a member of that union |
| 6 | Template:Flag | 1969 | 1988 | African | |
| 5 | Template:Flag | 1952 | 2025 | WEOG | |
| 5 | Template:Flag | 1966 | 2010 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 2003 | 2016 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1979 | 2001 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1976 | 2005 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1984 | 2009 | African | For the first 7 months of membership of the Security Council in 1984 was known as Upper Volta. |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1974 | 2003 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1986 | 2007 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1969 | 1990 | WEOG | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1972 | 2003 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1968 | 1993 | E. European | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1957 | 1975 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1979 | 2001 | GRULAC | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1978 | 2019 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1953 | 2011 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1976 | 2009 | African (Arab) | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1966 | 2001 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1983 | 2024 | WEOG | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1977 | 2002 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1969 | 1989 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1970 | 1984 | GRULAC | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1980 | 2021 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1994 | 2014 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1970 | 2025 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1998 | 2025 | E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1975 | 2006 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1982 | 2013 | African | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1986 | 2023 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1965 | 2017 | GRULAC | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 2008 | 2021 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1982 | 1991 | African | Now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 4 | Template:Flag | 1983 | 1992 | African | |
| 3 | Template:Flag | 1964 | 1979 | E. European | Predecessor of the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
| 3 | Template:Flag | 1971 | 2025 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2022 | 2023 | E. European | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2012 | 2013 | E. European | Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1998 | 1999 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2010 | 2011 | E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1995 | 1996 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1970 | 1971 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1974 | 1975 | E. European | Now known as Belarus; the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1992 | 1993 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1960 | 1961 | Asia-Pacific | Now known as Sri Lanka |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2014 | 2015 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2008 | 2009 | E. European | Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1994 | 1995 | E. European | Was part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1993 | 1994 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2019 | 2020 | GRULAC | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1980 | 1981 | E. European | Now subsumed into Germany, which has 8 years of Security Council membership since it has included the former territory of East Germany |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2020 | 2021 | E. European | Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2018 | 2019 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1998 | 1999 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2012 | 2013 | GRULAC | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1996 | 1997 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1995 | 1996 | GRULAC | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1955 | 1956 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2017 | 2018 | Asia-Pacific | Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2014 | 2015 | E. European | Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2013 | 2014 | WEOG | |
| 2 | Template:Flag deco Madagascar | 1985 | 1986 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1974 | 1975 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2023 | 2024 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1999 | 2000 | African | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1994 | 1995 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 2 | Template:Flag deco Paraguay | 1968 | 1969 | GRULAC | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2006 | 2007 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2020 | 2021 | GRULAC | Smallest nation to have held a place on the Security Council<ref>St. Vincent and the Grenadines breaks a record, as smallest ever Security Council seat holder, UN News</ref> |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2001 | 2002 | Asia-Pacific | Was part of Malaysia for 8 months in 1965 during its membership of the Security Council |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2006 | 2007 | E. European | Was part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1972 | 1973 | African (Arab) | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 2023 | 2024 | WEOG | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1985 | 1986 | Asia-Pacific | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1985 | 1986 | GRULAC | |
| 2 | Template:Flag | 1961 | 1962 | Middle East | Union of Syria and Egypt |
| 1 | Template:Flag deco Democratic Yemen | 1990 | 1990 | Asian (Arab) | Held the Security Council seat for the first five months of membership, then unified with Yemen (i.e., North Yemen) and passed the seat to Yemen. |
| 1 | Template:Flag | 1961 | 1961 | African | Served only one year.Template:Efn |
| 1 | Template:Flag | 1990 | 1991 | Asia-Pacific (Arab) | Inherited the seat from Democratic Yemen; served the remaining of the term, for one year and seven months. |
Future membershipEdit
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UN members that have never been Security Council membersEdit
This is a list of the 61 member nations that have never been members of the Security Council.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The three former UN members that were not elected to the Security Council during their membership are Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Serbia and Montenegro.
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Member states of the United Nations that have never been members of the United Nations Security Council Template:As of
| UN Member state | Regional Group | Security Council membership as part of another entity |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Flag country | Asia-Pacific | |
| Template:Flag | WEOG | |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 36 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Armenian independence referendum|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 27 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 21 years of Security Council membership until [[Barbados Independence Act 1966|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 35 years of Security Council membership until [[Belize Act 1981|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 1 year of Security Council membership until 1947 |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 38 years of Security Council membership until [[National Day (Brunei)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of France during its 8 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day of Cambodia|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a colony of France during its 14 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | African | Was an overseas territory of France during its 29 years of Security Council membership until [[1974 Comorian independence referendum|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 14 years of Security Council membership until [[Treaty of Guarantee (1960)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a province of Indonesia (de facto) during its 2 years of Security Council membership and an overseas province of Portugal (de jure) during its 4 years of Security Council membership until [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | |
| Template:Flag | African | Was under military administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until Template:Date, then an autonomous region and then a province of Ethiopia during its 10 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Eritrea)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 22 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 24 years of Security Council membership until [[Instruments of Independence|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Georgian independence referendum|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 28 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Grenada)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | |
| Template:Flag | WEOG | |
| Template:Flag | None / WEOGTemplate:Efn | Part of a League of Nations mandate under administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | None / Asia-PacificTemplate:Efn | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of France during its 7 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 44 years of Security Council membership until [[On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 20 years of Security Council until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | WEOG | |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 18 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 19 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence of the Maldives|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 40 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 41 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Moldovan Declaration of Independence|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | WEOG | |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]]Template:Efn |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Myanmar)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a United Nations trust territory administered by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 22 years of Security Council membership, Australia during its 4 years of Security Council membership, and New Zealand during its 3 years of Security Council membership until 31 January 1968 |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was under military occupation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Day of the Foundation of the Republic|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Macedonian independence referendum|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 48 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was an external territory of Australia in the case of the Territory of Papua and a League of Nations mandate (later a United Nations trust territory during its union with Papua) in the case of the Territory of New Guinea during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Papua and New Guinea Act 1949|Template:Date]], then the unified Territory of Papua and New Guinea in Australia during its 4 years of Security Council membership until [[Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 37 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a League of Nations mandate, then a United Nations trust territory, under the administration of New Zealand during its 2 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | WEOG | |
| Template:Flag | African | |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Saudi Arabia was elected in the 2013 election, but declined the seat.<ref>United Nations, General Assembly, Letter dated 12 November 2013 from the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, A/68/599 (14 November 2013), available from undocs.org/A/68/599</ref> |
| Template:Flag | E. European | Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]]Template:Efn |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 30 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 32 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | African | Was a condominium of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Egypt during its 10 years and 3 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then part of Sudan during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[2011 South Sudanese independence referendum|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | GRULAC | Was a colony, then a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands during its 5 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Tajikistan)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 24 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Turkmenistan)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 32 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Uzbekistan)|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag | Asia-Pacific | Was a condominium under joint sovereignty of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and France during its 34 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date |
Former UN members that were never UNSC membersEdit
| Former UN Member state | UN membership | Security Council membership as part of another entity |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Flag | 1992 to 2006 | Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]] |
| Template:Flag country | 1961 to 1964 | Was a League of Nations mandate under the administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 1 year of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then a United Nations trust territory under the administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until Template:Date, then independent until federation with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania on Template:Date |
| Template:Flag deco Zanzibar | 1963 to 1964 | Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 18 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then independent until federation with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania on Template:Date |
See alsoEdit
- United Nations Regional Groups
- Member states of the United Nations
- List of members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- List of members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
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