Chairs | Security Council

On 31 January 2006 (S/2006/66 ) the Security Council decided to end the monthly rotation of the chairmanship of the Working Group. Since then, the Working Group has been chaired by a member of the Security Council for an extended period. The most recent chairmen of the Working Group are listed below:

H.E. Mr. Kazuyuki Yamazaki	Japan	2 January 2024 - 31 December 2024
H.E. Mr. Ferit Hoxha	Albania	3 January 2022 - 31 December 2023
H.E. Ms. Inga Rhonda King	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2 January 2020 - 31 December 2021
H.E. Mr. Mansour Ayyad Sh. A. Alotaibi	Kuwait	2 January 2018 – 31 December 2019
H.E. Mr. Motohide Yoshikawa / H. E. Koro Bessho	Japan	4 January 2016 – 31 December 2017
H.E. Mr. Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins	Angola	2 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
H.E. Mrs. María Cristina Perceval	Argentina	2 January 2013 to 31 December 2014
H.E. Mr. José Filipe Moraes Cabral	Portugal	3 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
H.E. Mr. Ivan Barbalić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu / H.E. Mr. Tsuneo Nishida	Japan	31 January 2010 – 31 December 2010
H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu	Japan	6 January 2009 – 31 December 2009
H.E. Mr. Ricardo Alberto Arias	Panama	3 January 2008 – 31 December 2008
H.E. Mr. Peter Burian	Slovakia	18 January 2007 – 31 December 2007
H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima	Japan	31 January 2006 – 31 December 2006

Statements by the Chair of the Informal Working Group

The Chair of the Working Group occasionally delivers statements, either in his national capacity or as Chair of the Working Group, regarding the activities and achievements of the Working Group:

Statement by H.E. Mrs. María Cristina Perceval, in her national capacity as the representative of Argentina, at the 7285th meeting of the Security Council.	23 October 2014
Statement by H.E. Mrs. María Cristina Perceval, in her national capacity as the representative of Argentina, at the 7052nd meeting of the Security Council.	29 October 2013
Statement by H.E. Mr. José Filipe Moraes Cabral, as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 6881st meeting of the Security Council	7 December 2012
Statement by H.E. Mr. Ivan Barbalić, as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 6686th meeting of the Security Council.	14 December 2011
Statement by H.E. Mr. Tsuneo Nishida as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 6457th meeting of the Security Council.	20 December 2010
Statement by H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in his national capacity as the representative of Japan, at the 6300 meeting of the Security Council.	22 April 2010
Statement by H.E. Mr. Ricardo Alberto Arias, as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 6043rd meeting of the Security Council.	15 December 2008
Statement by H.E. Mr. Peter Burian, as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 5806th meeting of the Security Council.	17 December 2007
Statement by H.E. Mr. Peter Burian, in his capacity as Chairman of the Working Group, to the informal plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council.	3 May 2007
Statement by H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, as outgoing Chairman of the Working Group, at the 5601st meeting of the Security Council.	20 December 2006
Statement by H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, in his capacity as Chairman of the Working Group, to the plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council.	20 July 2006
Press statement by H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, following the adoption of the Note by the President S/2006/507.	19 July 2006
Statement by H.E. Mr. Kenzo Oshima, in his capacity as Chairman of the Working Group, to the meeting of the General Assembly’s Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council.	20 April 2006