Security Council Quotes

“The Security Council lies at the centre of the UN architecture. It consists of representatives of fifteen States: the five permanent members (the ‘P5’), China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA, and ten others elected for two-year terms by the UN General Assembly having regard to the contributions made by each State to the maintenance of international peace and security, and to the principle of the equitable geographical distribution of Security Council members.”
― Vaughan Lowe, International Law: A Very Short Introduction

“The US never gets condemned by a Security Council resolution, because it vetoes them. Take the invasion of Panama. There were two resolutions in the Security Council condemning the United States for that invasion. We vetoed them both. (42)”
― Noam Chomsky, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many