By adding two members from the African continent and one island state, the international body for peace and security could ...

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UNITED NATIONS (AP ... ago that the U.S. supports expanding the 15-member body. While Africa has three non-permanent seats on the Security Council, that doesn’t allow African countries ...

The United Nations heads of state will be heading to New York next week for what's called High-Level Week, where they converge on U.N. headquarters. In advance of that, the U.S. has announced it ...

The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for ...