Membership since 1946

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Below you can see the list of all countries, totaling 59, which have never been elected as members of the Security Council since 1946.

1. Afghanistan
2. Andorra
3. Antigua and Barbuda
4. Armenia
5. Bahamas
6. Barbados
7. Belize
8. Bhutan
9. Brunei Darussalam
10. Cambodia
11. Central African Republic
12. Comoros
13. Cyprus
14. Democratic People's Republic of Korea
15. Dominica
16. El Salvador
17. Eritrea
18. Fiji
19. Georgia
20. Grenada
21. Haiti
22. Iceland
23. Israel
24. Kiribati

Below you can see the list of all countries which have been elected as members of the Security Council at least once since 1946.

Albania
2022-2023

Algeria 
1968-1969, 1988-1989, 2004-2005, 2024-2025

Angola 
2003-2004, 2015-2016

Argentina 
1948-1949, 1959-1960, 1966-1967, 1971-1972, 1987-1988, 1994-1995, 1999-2000, 2005-2006, 2013-2014

Australia 
1946-1947, 1956-1957, 1973-1974, 1985-1986, 2013-2014

All existing committees and working groups are comprised of the fifteen members of the Council. While standing committees are chaired by the President of the Council, rotating on a monthly basis, other committees and working groups are chaired or co-chaired by designated members of the Council who are announced on an annual basis by a Note of the President of the Security Council.

Article 30 of the Charter stipulates that the Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, and in 1946 the Council adopted its Provisional Rules of Procedure (S/96). Subsequently the Provisional Rules of Procedure were modified on several occasions; the last revision was made in 1982 (S/96/Rev.7) in order to add Arabic as the sixth official language, in conformity with General Assembly resolution 35/219 of 17 December 1980.