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Presidency of the United Nations Security Council

The presidency of the United Nations Security Council is responsible for leading the United Nations Security Council. It rotates among the 15 member-states of the council monthly. The head of the country's delegation is known as the President of the United Nations Security Council. The presidency has rotated every month since its establishment in 1946,[1] and the president serves to coordinate actions of the council, decide policy disputes, and sometimes functions as a diplomat or intermediary between conflicting groups.

Presidency of United Nations Security Council

United Nations Security Council

United Nations Headquarters

United Nations Security Council

One month

Charter of the United Nations

17 January 1946

Australia

www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/presidency

List of presidents[edit]

1946–1949[edit]

Presidents from 1946 to 1949:[39]

President of the United Nations General Assembly

President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council

Bailey, Sydney Dawson; Daws, Sam (1998). The Procedure of the UN Security Council (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.  0-19-828073-4.

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(1950). The Law of the United Nations: A Critical Analysis of Its Fundamental Problems. New York: F.A. Praeger.

Kelsen, Hans

Luck, Edward C. (2006). The UN Security Council: A Primer. New York: Routledge.  0-415-35531-1.

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Paths to peace: the UN Security Council and its presidency

Pogany, Istvan (1982). "The Role of the President of the U. N. Security Council". The International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 31 (2): 231–245. :10.1093/iclqaj/31.2.231. ISSN 0020-5893. JSTOR 759131.

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Sievers, Loraine; Daws, Sam (2015). The procedure of the UN Security Council. :10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199685295.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-180374-1. OCLC 1013608149.

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official website

UN Security Council Presidency

United Nations Documentation, un.org

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