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Describe the composition of U.N. Security Council. What is the major difference in the privileges given to its permanent and non-permanent members.

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Describe any three new sources of threat to security giving examples for each.

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The Security Council is an important organ of the UN which is mainly responsible for ensuring peace in the world. The Security Council is composed of 15 members of which 5 are permanent members and 10 are elected by the General Assembly for two years. The non-permanent members are not eligible for immediate re-electron. Each member of Security Council has one vote. The approval of all the permanent members is necessary on important matters. In the event of a threat to peace or occurence of war between two or more countries, the Security Council has the power to take appropriate measures to restore peace and security.

U.N. Security Council is an important organ of United Nations. It has fifteen members - five permanent and ten elected by the General Assembly for two year terms.

Difference in the privileges between permanent and non - permanent members:

(i) The main privileges of the permanent members are permanency and the veto power, which can neglect any resolution of the Security Council.

(ii) The non-permanent members serve for only two years at a time. A country cannot be re-elected immediately after completing their term. They do not have Veto power.

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New Source of threat are:

(i) Terrorism: It refers to political violence that targets civilians indiscriminately. International terrorism involves the citizens or territory of more than our country. They use civilians as a weapon against national government to change a political context or condition they do not like.

Example: Plane hijacking, planting bombs at crowded places.

(ii) Human rights: These are in the form of political, economical, social rights and the rights of colonized people or ethnic and indigenous minorities.

Example: Iraq?s invasion of Kuwait, Indonesian military?s killing of people in East Timor.

(iii) Health epidemics: Due to migration, business, tourism etc. epidemics like HIV - AIDS, bird flu, and SARS have rapidly spread across countries. By 2003, an estimated 4 crore people were infected with HIV ? AIDS worldwide. Treatment of these epidemics have proved to be a major factor in driving the region backward into deeper poverty.