United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

26 June 1945; effective - 24 October 1945

to maintain international peace and security

permanent members - (5) China, France, Russia, UK, US

nonpermanent members - (10) elected for two-year terms by the UN General Assembly; Belgium (2019-2020), Cote d'Ivoire (2018-2019), Dominican Republic (2019-2020), Equatorial Guinea (2018-2019)), Germany (2019-2020), Indonesia (2019-2020), Kuwait (2018-2019), Peru (2018-2019), Poland 2018-2019), South Africa (2019-2020)