security council
Safety oversight body
A security council is a governing body responsible for matters of safety and defense.
The term most often refers to the United Nations Security Council, the UN body charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members with veto power and ten rotating members.
Countries and organizations may have their own security councils: The president convened the national security council.
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- diplomatic immunityEnvoy's exemption from prosecution
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
arms embargo · no-fly zone · permanent members · peacekeeping · chamber · closed session · voting · Russia · China · France · Britain · America · ambassador · Geneva · humanitarian · human rights · intervention · war powers
- governmentgovernment, ministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch
- CouncilsSanhedrin, Soviet, Duma, curia, conclave
- governing bodiesgoverning body, senate, board of directors, parliament, executive committee
- China diplomacyXi Jinping, Taiwan, Taiwan Strait, foreign ministry, ambassador
- Peacekeepingpeacekeepers, peacekeeping missions, blue helmets, UN peacekeeping, UN missions
- Russian GovernmentKremlin, Duma, Putin, presidential administration, governors
security councilpeacekeeping operations
Military efforts maintaining ceasefires
blue helmets · field missions · military operations · ground forces · boots on the ground
security councilUNESCO
Cultural arm of UN
UNICEF · aid organizations · diplomatic corps · World Health Organization
security, council, secure, securely, insecure, insecurity, securities, councils, councillor