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‘The Security Council is the heart of the United Nations.’

  • UPSC 2003
  • The World after World War II

The United Nations Charter (1945) built a deliberately unequal organ structure, and the Security Council sits at its centre by design, not by accident.

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  • Composition: the permanent five and the elected ten
  • Legal primacy over the General Assembly
  • Chapters VI and VII: from mediation to coercion
  • The veto as the Council's chronic weakness

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