Security Council Definition

noun
The United Nations council responsible for maintaining international peace and security: it consists of five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.) and ten nonpermanent members.
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pronoun
The UN Security Council.
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Security Council Sentence Examples

  • Cynical manipulation by the US of its power of veto in the UN Security Council is bringing increasing international condemnation.

  • The United Nations Security Council should act swiftly to bring about pressure on both sides to stop the carnage.

  • The UK and the US made a humanitarian intervention in Kosovo without a Security Council resolution.

  • The imperative need for the Security Council to carefully deliberate over decisions for the setting up of peace operations cannot be over-stated.

  • The first Iraqi oil exports under UN Security Council resolution 986 began in December 1996.

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