Russia assumes UN Security Council presidency despite Ukrainian anger - BBC
Apr 1, 2023 · Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a...
Current Members | Security Council - United Nations
Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end...
US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on invasion of Ukraine - BBC
Feb 25, 2025 · At the much more powerful 15-member UN Security Council, the unamended US resolution - which called for an end to the conflict but contained no criticism of Russia - was passed by 10 votes, with ...
Russia blocks Security Council action on Ukraine - UN News
Feb 25, 2022 · Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have demanded that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said...
Russia runs the UN Security Council this month. Ukraine says it’s …
Apr 1, 2023 · Adding to discomfort over Russia’s new role is the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin last month became the first head of state of a permanent member of the United Nations Security...
Strange Days at the U.N. as Russia Takes the Helm of the Security Council
Apr 3, 2023 · For the first time since February 2022, when its military stormed across the borders of neighboring Ukraine and launched an unprovoked war, Russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the...
The UN Security Council - Council on Foreign Relations
Sep 9, 2024 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the Security Council via video amid Russia’s war. Andrew Kelly/Reuters. The fifteen-member UN Security Council seeks to address threats to...
General Assembly Debates Russian Federation’s Security Council …
2 days ago · The General Assembly today addressed what many delegations decried as “misuse” of the Security Council veto by the Russian ... of the three European proposals seeking to align the United States-authored draft resolution with the Charter of the United Nations. The two amendments — one inserting a reference to Ukraine’s sovereignty and ...
Zelenskyy says Russia's Security Council veto undermines world …
Sep 20, 2023 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday called for expanding the UN Security Council and reforming the right of veto granted to its permanent members, in his first in-person...
Russia welcomes 'more balanced' US stance on Ukraine after UN Security …
Feb 25, 2025 · Members of the Security Council cast a vote during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., February ...