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 ...

Annually, the UN representatives in each regional group would elect one of its members to represent it in the Council. If the ...

Beginning Tuesday, world leaders will discuss three wars, climate change, rising sea levels and proposals to expand ...

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.

The US says it will not support that the two permanent African seats be granted veto powers like the five original permanent ...

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

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

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 ...