Security Council

Security Council members, 2016

15 states sat on the Security Council in 2016, elected at A/70/PV.33.

• Angola
• Egypt
• France
• Japan
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• China now People's Republic of China
• Russian Federation now Russia
• Senegal
• Spain
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) now Venezuela

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.