Contrary to the claim of a Chinese official, the Philippines never sought permission from Beijing for its resupply missions ...

The United Nations (UN) is the centrepiece of what is touted as the rules-based international order. The entrenched biases in these rules are, however, laid bare by the composition and voting ...

Here’s a look at Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Since 2003, worldwide concern over Iran’s nuclear program has increased as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spar over investigation ...

December 23, 2006 - The UN Security Council votes unanimously to impose ... June 18-19, 2012 - A meeting is held between Iran and the P5+1 (United States, France, Russia, China, Great Britain ...

All five permanent Security Council members (known as the P5) had fought for the Allied side. The USSR, realising that it stood to be outnumbered by Western countries in the UN, tried to argue that ...

Conversely, the existing vetoes of the current P5 could be limited, such as never using them to block Security Council action aimed at preventing or ending genocide, crimes against humanity or war ...

The Doomsday Clock shows the global community faces the three-headed catastrophe of global warming, pandemics and nuclear weapons use.

Called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it involved the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ... collectively known as the P5+1. In exchange for lifting sanctions ...

with the P5+1 group of countries (the USA, UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) under which it agreed to limit its nuclear development programme in return for the lifting of sanctions. IN ...

No P5 (or permanent member of the United Nations Security Council) head of state other than President Xi Jinping of China was invited — and Xi declined. Only one G7 head of state — Italy’s Georgia ...