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List of members of the United Nations Security Council

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Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members.

Being elected requires a two-thirds majority vote from the United Nations General Assembly. Elected members hold their place on the council for a two-year term, with five seats contested in even years and five seats contested in odd years. An outgoing member cannot be immediately re-elected.

Elections usually begin in June for a term starting January 1. Because of the two-thirds majority requirement, it is possible for two evenly matched candidates to deadlock with approximately half the vote each, sometimes needing weeks of negotiations to resolve.

Non-permanent seats are distributed geographically, with a certain number of seats allocated to each of the five United Nations Regional Groups.

Current membership

Permanent members
Country Regional Group Member since
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Group Template:Date, replaced the Republic of China
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Template:Flagwrap Eastern European Group Template:Date, replaced the Soviet Union
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Non-permanent members
Country Regional Group Term began Term ends
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Group (Arab) 2026 2027
Template:Flagwrap Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) 2026 2027
Template:Flagwrap African Group 2026 2027
Template:Flagwrap Western European and Others Group (WEOG) 2025 2026
Template:Flagwrap Western European and Others Group (WEOG) 2025 2026
Template:Flagwrap Eastern European Group (EEG) 2026 2027
Template:Flagwrap African Group 2026 2027
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Group 2025 2026
Template:Flagwrap Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) 2025 2026
Template:Flagwrap African Group 2025 2026

Regional Groups

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  Non-UN state or territory

The ten non-permanent seats have the following distribution:

In addition, one of the five African/Asian seats is an Arab country, alternating between the two groups. This rule was added in 1967 for it to be applied beginning with 1968.

Electoral timetable
Term beginning in years that are: Odd Even
African Group one member two members *
Asia-Pacific Group one member one member *
Eastern European Group none one member
Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) one member one member
Western European and Others Group two members none

* The representative of Arab nations alternates between these two spaces.

The odd/even distribution was effectively decided by the January 1946 and 1965 elections (the first ever election, and the first election after the expansion of seats). For each of the six and four members in the newly created seats, the UN General Assembly voted to grant either a 1-year or 2-year term.

Previous Security Council composition

From 1946 to 1965, the Security Council had six non-permanent members. Due to a lack of African and Asian member states, the seats had the following distribution:

  • Latin America: 2 members
  • Commonwealth of Nations: 1 member
  • Eastern Europe: 1 member
  • Middle East: 1 member
  • Western Europe: 1 member

As decolonization increased the number of Asian and African member states without a group, they began to contest other seats: Ivory Coast substituted a member of the Commonwealth in 1964–1965, the Eastern European seat regularly included Asian countries from 1956, Liberia took the place of a Western European country in 1961, and Mali successfully contested the Middle Eastern seat in December 1964 (the Security Council would be expanded before Mali's term began).

An amendment to the UN Charter ratified in 1965 increased the number of non-permanent seats to 10, and the Regional Groups were formally applied to the seats. The amendment effectively created three African seats and one Asian seat (if treating the Commonwealth seat as a WEOG seat and the Middle Eastern seat as an Asian seatTemplate:Efn).

Membership by year

Permanent

Year Chinese seat French seat Soviet/Russian seat British seat American seat
1945 Template:Flag deco Republic of China Template:Flag deco Prov. Gov. of France Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap
1946 Template:Flagdeco French Fourth Republic
1949 Template:Flag deco Republic of China (Taiwan)
1958 Template:Flag deco French Fifth Republic
1971 Template:Flagwrap
1991–present Template:Flagwrap

Non-permanent (1946–1965)

Year Latin American seats Commonwealth seat Eastern European
& Asian seatTemplate:Efn 		Middle Eastern seat Western European seat
1946 Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap
1947 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag deco Syria Template:Flagwrap
1948 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap
1949 Template:Flag country Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap
1950 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country
1951 Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap
1952 Template:Flag deco Chile Template:Flag country Template:Flag country
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1955 Template:Flag deco Peru Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap
1956 Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country
1957 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag deco Philippines Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap
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1959 Template:Flagwrap Template:FlagwrapTemplate:Efn Template:Flagwrap
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1961 Template:Flag deco Chile Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:FlagwrapTemplate:Efn
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1964 Template:Flag deco Bolivia Template:FlagwrapTemplate:Efn Template:Flag country
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Non-permanent (1966–present)

The African Union uses an internal rotation system to distribute seats based on its subregions:[1][2]

  • 1 odd-year seat alternates between Eastern Africa and Southern Africa (only Eastern Africa prior to the creation of the Southern Africa subregion in 1979)
  • 1 even-year seat is allocated to Western Africa
  • 1 even-year seat alternates between Northern Africa (the Arab nation seat) and Central Africa (with one exception at the beginning in 1966)

Aside from the Asia-Pacific Group also allocating an Arab nation seat every four years (in even years not divisible by 4), other regional groups do not have their own subregional rotation systems.[3][4] The Arab nation seat is starred below.

The Western European and Others Group in part contains three caucusing subgroups (Benelux, the Nordic countries, and CANZTemplate:Efn), whose candidates informally coordinate with each other.[5][4] While this has not resulted in a stable rotation system, it effectively guarantees that both seats will never be occupied by a single subgroup at the same time.[6]

Year African Group Asia-Pacific Group Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) Western European and Others Group Eastern European Group
Eastern/Southern Western Northern/Central
1966 Template:Flag deco Uganda Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag deco NigeriaTemplate:Efn Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap* Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country
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1970 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap* Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country
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1985 Template:Flag deco Madagascar Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap Template:Flagwrap
1986 Template:Flagwrap Template:Flag country Template:Flagwrap* Template:Flag country Template:Flag country
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List by number of years as Security Council member

This list contains the 139 United Nations member states so far elected to the United Nations Security Council, including the five permanent members, all listed by number of years each country has so far spent on the UNSC. Of all the members, 6 have so far ceased to exist, leaving the list with 133 modern nations. These, combined with the 60 modern nations that have never been elected to the UNSC to date (see Non-members, below), make up the 193 current members of the UN.

Years on the Security Council, Template:As of, including current year where relevant :

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  Indicates former United Nations member
YearsTemplate:Efn Country First Year Most Recent Year Regional Group Notes
81 Template:Flagwrap 1945 2026 WEOG Permanent member
81 Template:Flagwrap 1945 2026 WEOG Permanent member
81 Template:Flagwrap 1945 2026 WEOG Permanent member
55 Template:Flagwrap 1971 2026 Asia-Pacific Permanent member
46 Template:Flagwrap 1945 1991 E. European Former permanent member, replaced by the Russian Federation
35 Template:Flagwrap 1991 2026 E. European Permanent member
26 Template:Flagwrap 1945 1971 None Former permanent member, replaced by the People's Republic of China
24 Template:Flagwrap 1958 2024 Asia-Pacific
22 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2023 GRULAC
18 Template:Flagwrap 1948 2014 GRULAC
16 Template:Flagwrap 1950 2022 Asia-Pacific
16 Template:Flagwrap 1952 2026 Asia-Pacific
15 Template:Flagwrap 1947 2026 GRULAC
13 Template:Flagwrap 1959 2017 WEOG
12 Template:Flagwrap 1947 2020 WEOG
12 Template:Flagwrap 1948 2000 WEOG
12 Template:Flagwrap 1977 2020 WEOG Includes 4 years when the Federal Republic of Germany consisted only of West Germany (but does not include East Germany's 2 years, listed separately below).
12 Template:Flagwrap 1958 2026 GRULAC
11 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2019 E. European
10 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2014 WEOG
10 Template:Flagwrap 1953 2026 WEOG
10 Template:Flagwrap 1952 2015 GRULAC
10 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2018 WEOG
10 Template:Flagwrap 1966 2015 African
10 Template:Flagwrap 1949 2022 WEOG
10 Template:Flagwrap 1955 2019 GRULAC
10 Template:Flagwrap 1969 2016 WEOG
10 Template:Flagwrap 1962 2016 GRULAC
9 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2017 African (Arab) Excludes 2 years with the seat held in the name of the United Arab Republic, of which for more than 15 months UAR served as the name of modern-day Egypt
9 Template:Flagwrap 1946 2022 GRULAC
8 Template:Flagwrap 1968 2025 African (Arab)
8 Template:Flagwrap 1950 2024 GRULAC
8 Template:Flagwrap 1978 2023 African
8 Template:Flagwrap 1962 2023 African
8 Template:Flagwrap 1973 2020 Asia-Pacific
8 Template:Flagwrap 1957 2018 WEOG
8 Template:Flagwrap 1948 2017 E. European Includes 4 years of membership under the name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Ukrainian SSR held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
8 Template:Flagwrap 1959 2021 African (Arab)
7 Template:Flagwrap 1962 2022 WEOG
7 Template:Flagwrap 1965 2016 Asia-Pacific
7 Template:Flagwrap 1954 2016 WEOG
7 Template:Flagwrap 1962 2005 E. European
7 Template:Flagwrap 1951 2010 WEOG
7 Template:Flag country 1950 1989 E. European Predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia
6 Template:Flagwrap 1973 2010 WEOG
6 Template:Flagwrap 1964 2018 GRULAC
6 Template:Flagwrap 1966 2003 E. European
6 Template:Flagwrap 1974 2009 GRULAC
6 Template:Flagwrap 1964 2019 African
6 Template:Flagwrap 1949 1991 GRULAC
6 Template:Flagwrap 1967 2018 African
6 Template:Flagwrap 1952 2026 WEOG
6 Template:Flagwrap 1975 2025 GRULAC
6 Template:Flagwrap 1965 2015 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
6 Template:Flagwrap 1973 2022 African
6 Template:Flagwrap 1996 2025 Asia-Pacific
6 Template:Flagwrap 1963 2013 African (Arab)
6 Template:Flagwrap 1957 2005 Asia-Pacific
6 Template:Flagwrap 1979 2012 WEOG
6 Template:Flagwrap 1968 2017 African
6 Template:Flagwrap 2007 2020 African
6 Template:Flagwrap 1947 2003 Asia-Pacific (Arab) Excludes one year (1961) during which the United Arab Republic was a member, for the greater part of which Syria was a member of that union
6 Template:Flagwrap 1969 1988 African
5 Template:Flagwrap 1982 2026 African Previously known as Zaire during its 4 years of Security Council membership
5 Template:Flagwrap 1966 2010 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 2003 2016 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1979 2001 Asia-Pacific
4 Template:Flagwrap 1976 2005 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1984 2009 African For the first 7 months of membership of the Security Council in 1984 was known as Upper Volta.
4 Template:Flagwrap 1974 2003 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1986 2007 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1969 1990 WEOG
4 Template:Flagwrap 1972 2003 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1968 1993 E. European
4 Template:Flagwrap 1957 1975 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 Template:Flagwrap 1979 2001 GRULAC
4 Template:Flagwrap 1978 2019 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 Template:Flagwrap 1953 2011 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 Template:Flagwrap 1976 2009 African (Arab)
4 Template:Flagwrap 1966 2001 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1983 2024 WEOG
4 Template:Flagwrap 1977 2002 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1969 1989 Asia-Pacific
4 Template:Flagwrap 1970 1984 GRULAC
4 Template:Flagwrap 1980 2021 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1994 2014 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1970 2025 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1998 2025 E. European Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership
4 Template:Flagwrap 1971 2026 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1975 2006 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1982 2013 African
4 Template:Flagwrap 1986 2023 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
4 Template:Flagwrap 1965 2017 GRULAC
4 Template:Flagwrap 2008 2021 Asia-Pacific
4 Template:Flagwrap 1983 1992 African
3 Template:Flagwrap 1998 2026 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
3 Template:Flagwrap 1964 1979 E. European Predecessor of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
2 Template:Flagwrap 2022 2023 E. European
2 Template:Flagwrap 2012 2013 E. European Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 2010 2011 E. European Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1995 1996 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1970 1971 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1974 1975 E. European Now known as Belarus; the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic held its own seat in the General Assembly while being part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1992 1993 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1960 1961 Asia-Pacific Now known as Sri Lanka
2 Template:Flagwrap 2014 2015 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 2008 2009 E. European Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1994 1995 E. European Was part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1993 1994 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 2019 2020 GRULAC
2 Template:Flagwrap 1980 1981 E. European Now subsumed into Germany, which has 8 years of Security Council membership since it has included the former territory of East Germany
2 Template:Flagwrap 2020 2021 E. European Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 2018 2019 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1998 1999 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 2012 2013 GRULAC
2 Template:Flagwrap 1996 1997 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1995 1996 GRULAC
2 Template:Flagwrap 1955 1956 Asia-Pacific
2 Template:Flagwrap 2017 2018 Asia-Pacific Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1961 2026 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 2014 2015 E. European Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 2013 2014 WEOG
2 Template:Flag deco Madagascar 1985 1986 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1974 1975 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 2023 2024 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1999 2000 African
2 Template:Flagwrap 1994 1995 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
2 Template:Flag deco Paraguay 1968 1969 GRULAC
2 Template:Flagwrap 2006 2007 Asia-Pacific (Arab)
2 Template:Flagwrap 2020 2021 GRULAC Smallest nation to have held a place on the Security Council[8]
2 Template:Flagwrap 2001 2002 Asia-Pacific Was part of Malaysia for 8 months in 1965 during its membership of the Security Council
2 Template:Flagwrap 2006 2007 E. European Was part of Czechoslovakia during its 3 years of Security Council membership
2 Template:Flagwrap 1972 1973 African (Arab)
2 Template:Flagwrap 2023 2024 WEOG
2 Template:Flagwrap 1985 1986 Asia-Pacific
2 Template:Flagwrap 1985 1986 GRULAC
2 Template:Flagwrap 1961 1962 Middle East Union of Syria and Egypt
1 Template:Flag deco Democratic Yemen 1990 1990 Asian (Arab) Held the Security Council seat for the first five months of membership, then unified with Yemen (i.e., North Yemen) and passed the seat to Yemen.
1 Template:Flagwrap 2026 2026 E. European Was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership
1 Template:Flagwrap 1990 1991 Asia-Pacific (Arab) Inherited the seat from Democratic Yemen; served the remaining of the term, for one year and seven months.

Future membership

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Year Africa Asia-Pacific Eastern Europe Latin America & Caribbean Western Europe & Others
The following countries have made known their applications for future United Nations Security Council membership:
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2037–38 ? ? – ? Template:Flagwrap[24]

UN members that have never been Security Council members

This is a list of the 60 member nations that have never been members of the Security Council.[25] The three former UN members that were not elected to the Security Council during their membership are Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Serbia and Montenegro.

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Member states of the United Nations that have never been members of the United Nations Security Council Template:As of
UN Member state Regional Group Security Council membership as part of another entity
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Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 36 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Armenian independence referendum|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 27 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 21 years of Security Council membership until [[Barbados Independence Act 1966|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 35 years of Security Council membership until [[Belize Act 1981|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 1 year of Security Council membership until 1947
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 38 years of Security Council membership until [[National Day (Brunei)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protectorate of France during its 8 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day of Cambodia|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap African Was a colony of France during its 14 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap African Was an overseas territory of France during its 29 years of Security Council membership until [[1974 Comorian independence referendum|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 14 years of Security Council membership until [[Treaty of Guarantee (1960)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a province of Indonesia (de facto) during its 2 years of Security Council membership and an overseas province of Portugal (de jure) during its 4 years of Security Council membership until [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC
Template:Flagwrap African Was under military administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until Template:Date, then an autonomous region and then a province of Ethiopia during its 10 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Eritrea)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap African Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 22 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 24 years of Security Council membership until [[Instruments of Independence|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Georgian independence referendum|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 28 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Grenada)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC
Template:Flagwrap WEOG
Template:Flagwrap None / WEOGTemplate:Efn Part of a League of Nations mandate under administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap None / Asia-PacificTemplate:Efn Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protectorate of France during its 7 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap African Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 20 years of Security Council until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap WEOG
Template:Flagwrap African Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 18 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 19 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence of the Maldives|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 40 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 41 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Moldovan Declaration of Independence|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap WEOG
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a Regions of the Republic of China during its 4 months of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]]Template:Efn
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Myanmar)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a United Nations trust territory administered by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 22 years of Security Council membership, Australia during its 4 years of Security Council membership, and New Zealand during its 3 years of Security Council membership until 31 January 1968
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was under military occupation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Day of the Foundation of the Republic|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1991 Macedonian independence referendum|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the administration of the United States of America during its 48 years of Security Council membership until [[Compact of Free Association|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was an external territory of Australia in the case of the Territory of Papua and a League of Nations mandate (later a United Nations trust territory during its union with Papua) in the case of the Territory of New Guinea during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[Papua and New Guinea Act 1949|Template:Date]], then the unified Territory of Papua and New Guinea in Australia during its 4 years of Security Council membership until [[Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 37 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a crown colony, then an associated state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 33 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a League of Nations mandate, then a United Nations trust territory, under the administration of New Zealand during its 2 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap WEOG
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Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Saudi Arabia was elected in the 2013 election, but declined the seat.[26]
Template:Flagwrap E. European Was a republic of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]]Template:Efn
Template:Flagwrap African Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 30 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 32 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap African Was a condominium of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Egypt during its 10 years and 3 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then part of Sudan during its 2 years of Security Council membership until [[2011 South Sudanese independence referendum|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap GRULAC Was a colony, then a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands during its 5 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Tajikistan)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a protected state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 24 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 46 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Turkmenistan)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a crown colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 32 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a union republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during its 45 years of Security Council membership until [[Independence Day (Uzbekistan)|Template:Date]]
Template:Flagwrap Asia-Pacific Was a condominium under joint sovereignty of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and France during its 34 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date

Former UN members that were never UNSC members

Former UN Member state UN membership Security Council membership as part of another entity
Template:Flagwrap 1992 to 2006 Was part of Yugoslavia during its 7 years of Security Council membership until [[1992 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Template:Date]]
Template:Flag country 1961 to 1964 Was a League of Nations mandate under the administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 1 year of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then a United Nations trust territory under the administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until Template:Date, then independent until federation with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania on Template:Date
Template:Flag deco Zanzibar 1963 to 1964 Was a protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during its 18 years of Security Council membership until Template:Date, then independent until federation with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania on Template:Date

See also

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Notes

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References

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