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• It is only after the sanction of the security council that United nations sends
peacekeepers to the affected countries.

• The security council can have a number of subsidiary bodies to support its
operations.
Powers and role

• The United Nations charter gives three types of powers to the security council
that is legislative powers, executive powers and judiciary powers.
• The security council passes a resolution for any peacekeeping mission and
monitors the peacekeeping mission.
• It gets periodic reports from the Secretary-General and decides how to
proceed, accordingly,
• The decisions of the security council are binding on the members.
• Moreover, the security council can order for investigations in case any
international threat is suspected.
• Military actions can be initiated by the security council wherever required.
• The security council can give recommendations for admission of new
members, appointment of secretary general and judges of the International
Court of Justice.

Failures of the UN security council

• There have been cases where the council could not take immediate steps
when required.
• In 1994, there was genocide in Rwanda, which killed a million people and the
UN security council could do nothing.
• The unsc failed to protect the civilians in Sri Lanka civil war. There are many
such similar examples.
• It has been unable to prevent a number of conflicts and in fact, many of the
members of the UNSC have been found involved in these.
• The failure to end the Syrian war is one of the latest examples where UNSC
could not take any immediate steps.
• There have been a number of flawed resolutions from the UNSC.

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