ضرورة إصلاح مجلس الأمن

Abstract EN

The Security Council is the organ of the UN which has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.

In its initial form, the SC was formed of 11 members, among them 5 permanent ones and 6 non-permanent ones.

In 1963 the Charter of the United Nations has been amended in order to allow an increase of the number of non-permanent members form 6 to 10.

Until today, this has been the only successful attempt to reform the Council.

Nowadays, the Council has 15 members, 5 of them permanent (France, Russia, Great Britain, China, USA) and 10 non-permanent (elected by the UN General Assembly for a 2-year mandate).

At UN level the SC reform has been debated in 5 components: categories of members, the right to veto, the level of extension, working methods and the relation to the General Assembly