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 Session 4

The Security Council

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 Mandate

• primary responsibility for maintaining

international peace and security

• which may meet whenever peace is

threatened.

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 Obligatory Nature

• All members of the United Nations agree to accept

and carry out the decisions of the Security Council.
• Security Council has the power to make decisions
that member states are then obligated to implement
under the Charter.
• While other organs of the United Nations make
recommendations to member states,

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 Other Members

• It has 15 Members, and each Member

has one vote. Under the Charter,

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 Methods

The Security Council takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to
the peace or act of aggression.
by peaceful means and recommends methods of
adjustment or terms of settlement.
In some cases, the Security Council can resort to
imposing sanctions
or even authorize the use of force to maintain or
restore international peace and security

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 Recommendations

The SC recommend:
• GA, the Secretary-General
• admission of new Members to the
United Nations.
• together with the GA, elects the judges
of the ICC.

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 Maintaining Peace and Security

complaint concerning a threat:

set forth principles for such an agreement;
undertake investigation and mediation, in some
cases;
dispatch a mission;
appoint special envoys; or
request the Secretary-General to use his good
offices to achieve a pacific settlement of the
dispute.

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 Cont:

When a dispute leads to hostilities:

 issue ceasefire directives that can help prevent an

escalation of the conflict;
 dispatch military observers or a peacekeeping force
to help reduce tensions,
 separate opposing forces and establish a calm in
which peaceful settlements may be sought.

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 Cont:

Beyond this,

economic sanctions, arms embargoes,

financial penalties and restrictions, and travel
bans;
severance of diplomatic relations;
blockade;
or even collective military action.

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 First session;

• 17 January 1946 at Church House,

Westminster, London.

• the SC HQs, United Nations Headquarters

in New York City.

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 Membership

Five permanent

China, France, Russian Federation, the

United Kingdom, the United States,

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 Cont :

Non-Permanent Members:
– Bolivia (2018)
– Egypt (2017)
– Ethiopia (2018)
– Italy (2017)
– Japan (2017)
– Kazakhstan (2018)
– Senegal (2017)
– Sweden (2018)
– Ukraine (2017)
– Uruguay (2017)

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 Non-Council Member States

• Parties at dispute

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 Functions and Powers of SC

• to maintain international peace and security in accordance

with the principles and purposes of the United Nations,
• to investigate any dispute or situation which might lead to
international friction,
• to recommend methods of adjusting such disputes or the
terms of settlement;
• to formulate plans for the establishment of a system to
regulate armaments;

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 Cont:

• to determine the existence of a threat to the peace or act of

aggression and to recommend what action should be taken;
• to call on Members to apply economic sanctions and other
measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop
aggression;
• to take military action against an aggressor;
• to recommend the admission of new Members;
• to exercise the trusteeship functions of the United Nations in
"strategic areas”,

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 Provisional Rules of Procedure

• Chapter I: Meetings
• Chapter II: Agenda
• Chapter III: Representation and Credentials
• Chapter IV: Presidency
• Chapter V: Secretariat
• Chapter VI: Conduct of Business
• Chapter VII: Voting
• Chapter VIII: Languages
• Chapter IX: Publicity of Meetings, Records
• Chapter X: Admission of New Members
• Chapter XI: Relations with Other United Nations Organs
• Appendix

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 • Working Methods Handbook

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 Repertoire of the Practice of the Security
Council

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 Structure

Committees
• Counter-Terrorism
• Non-Proliferation Committees
• Military Staff Committee
• Sanctions Committees (ad hoc)

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 Cont:

Standing Committees and Ad Hoc Bodies

• Peacekeeping Operations

• Political Missions

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 Cont:

International Courts and Tribunals

• International Criminal Tribunal for

the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

• International Criminal Tribunal for

Rwanda (ICTR)

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 Cont;

Advisory Subsidiary Organ

• Peace building Commission (PBC)

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 Thank you

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