Security Council

American  

noun

1. the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.

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Security Council British  

noun

1. a permanent organ of the United Nations established to maintain world peace. It consists of five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US) and ten nonpermanent members

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Security Council Cultural  

1. An important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia — and ten rotating members. It is often called into session to respond quickly to international crises. Any permanent member can exercise a veto over a resolution before the Security Council.

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Security Council

Dennis Wilder, a former senior China director at the National Security Council who organized three state visits during the George W. Bush administration, said the hold-room arrangement was unprecedented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The United Nations Security Council voted on Tuesday to extend by six months the work of the gang suppression force deployed to combat violent criminal syndicates ravaging Haiti.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Clement Delangue, the head of Hugging Face, said Wednesday during a United Nations Security Council session on AI: "I often wonder what would have happened had I decided not to close this attack publicly."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

In an address to the United Nations Security Council, Altman said that this “must be” one of the occasions where nations band together to defend the “collective good in the face of powerful new technology.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The last hurrah for the two aging warriors was sounded during a marathon session of the National Security Council on January 6, 1958, when Stassen proposed a new framework for talks with the Soviet Union.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik