Security Council

Security Council members, 2005

16 states sat on the Security Council in 2005, elected at A/59/PV.32.

• Algeria
• Argentina
• Benin
• Brazil
• China
• France
• Greece
• Japan
• Denmark now Kingdom of Denmark
• China now People's Republic of China
• Philippines
• Romania
• Russian Federation now Russia
• United Republic of Tanzania now Tanzania
• 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.