Security Council
Security Council members, 1997
15 states sat on the Security Council in 1997, elected at A/51/PV.39.
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Egypt
- France
- Guinea-Bissau
- Japan
- Kenya
- China now People's Republic of China
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russian Federation now Russia
- Republic of Korea now South Korea
- Sweden
- 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.