United Nations Security Council Summary

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Today we are going to talk about the Security Council in the United Nations. The Security Council makes decisions about international security, and often decides where to put sanctions. The Security Council consists of 15 countries. They vote like a democracy. Five of the countries on the security, China, Russia, the U.S., France, and Great Britain, are permanently on the Security Council. The other 10 positions rotate the other 188 member countries for a period of time. The 5 power countries also have veto power. This means that if any of the five countries votes against any of the propositions, they automatically fail. However, the non permanent members were able to block votes that the big 5 agreed on. The current members include Togo, Pakistan, Morocco, Guatemala, Portugal, South Africa, Colombia, Germany, India, and Azerbaijan.It has been argued that the security council is unfair because all the permanent member states are major nuclear powers. Some of the kind of resolutions they attempt to pass are interfering in Syria and the arab spring, putting sanctions and embargos on North Korea, sending peacekeeping missions different places, and sending aide to various countries. Something else I found interesting is that all the permanent member countries are in the northern hemisphere. The U.N. Security council is an intriguing commitee.

                                    This picture shows the U.N. Security Council in a meeting.