The Security Council, the United Nations’ principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on the 193 UN member states to maintain peace. The Security Council’s ...

Finland's President Alexander Stubb has called for expansion of the U.N. Security Council, abolition of its single state veto ...

The United States supports creating two new permanent U.N. Security Council seats for African states, and one seat to be rotated among small island developing states ...

This year’s UN summit offers a rare chance for reform of the world’s leading peace and security body but is bedeviled by ...

This year’s UNGA features the world body caught in a debate over its relevancy while facing wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan.

Kenya President William Ruto is promising to send an additional 600 police officers to Haiti over the next two months and to ...

The United States has backed India's quest for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. This support was echoed in a ...

India has been eyeing a permanent seat at the UN Security Council for the past several years, citing its contributions to ...

The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for ...

In advance of that, the U.S. has announced it is supporting plans to expand the number of permanent members on the U.N. Security Council. This matters because the Security Council is the most ...