Security Council

Security Council members, 1971

15 states sat on the Security Council in 1971, elected at A/PV.1885.

• Argentina
• Belgium
• Burundi
• France
• Italy
• Japan
• Nicaragua
• China now People's Republic of China
• Poland
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Syria
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• United Kingdom
• United States

States are named as the Library records them for that year. A name with no link is a state that no longer exists under that name and has no page here — Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic. Attaching those seats to a successor would be a claim about state continuity that this site does not make.