Security Council

Security Council members, 1981

15 states sat on the Security Council in 1981, elected at A/35/PV.41 , A/35/PV.61.

• France
• German Democratic Republic
• Ireland
• Japan
• Mexico
• Niger
• Panama
• China now People's Republic of China
• Philippines
• Spain
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• 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.