1 January 2016: New non-permanent members of the UN Security Council
Starting the beginning of the New Year, the new non-permanent members, Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay, began their two-year term in the Security Council. The attention is paid to the tension between Ukraine and Russia, which is a permanent member of the UNSC, caused by the war in the eastern regions of Ukraine and challenging is also the fact Japan holds territorial disputes with both China and Russia.
