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Permanent members of the Council are: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the
United States.
10 non-permanent members are currently Austria, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Japan,
Libya, Mexico, Turkey, Uganda and Vietnam.
The Security Council has the primary responsibility for maintaining
international peace and
security and members agree to carry out its decisions. The Council may investigate any dispute that
threatens international peace and security. When the Security Council is handling a dispute or situation
the General Assembly makes no recommendation unless the Council requests it.
The Security
Council functions continuously, each member being represented at all times. It
may change its place of meeting.
Any member of the UN may participate in its discussions and a nation not a member of the UN
may appear if it is a party to a dispute.
The Security Council may decide to enforce its decisions without the use of arms. Such
measures include interruption of economic relations, break in transportation and communications, and
severance of diplomatic relations. If such measures fail the Council may call on UN members to
furnish armed forces and assistance. The right of individual or collective self-defense is not prohibited
by membership in the UN, and if a member nation is attacked it may do what is necessary, reporting
this
to the Security Council, which may take independent action. However, the Council encourages
regional arrangements or agencies by means of which local disputes can be settled without getting as
far
as the Council, after the Council has approved this method.
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