Security Council

Security Council members, 1983

15 states sat on the Security Council in 1983, elected at A/37/PV.36.

• Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo
• France
• Guyana
• Jordan
• Netherlands now Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Malta
• Nicaragua
• Pakistan
• China now People's Republic of China
• Poland
• Togo
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Zimbabwe

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.