Security Council

Security Council members, 2008

15 states sat on the Security Council in 2008, elected at A/62/PV.26.

• Belgium
• Burkina Faso
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• France
• Indonesia
• Italy
• Libyan Arab Jamahiriya now Libya
• Panama
• China now People's Republic of China
• Russian Federation now Russia
• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Viet Nam now Vietnam

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.